[cc-community] confusing use of CC licenses?
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Mar 10 08:04:11 EDT 2009
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 03:52:41 Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We've just been contacted by a person inquiring, how he can reuse a work
> by Samuel Butler (1835-1902), made available in an University of
> Adelaide ebook collection under a CC BY NC SA license. (The work is a
> remix of Homer's Illiad).
>
> http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/
> http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/homer/h8i/
If it is here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a748
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2199
and the person is in the US, that may be a work around.
>
> This seems to me a really confusing use of CC licenses - the whole
> collection is CC licensed and contains solely works in the public domain.
>
> Is there any reason to do this?
>
> Best,
>
> Alek Tarkowski
drew
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