Which Licence would suit?
Evan Prodromou
evan at bad.dynu.ca
Thu Mar 3 08:25:48 EST 2005
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:47 +0000, MMP wrote:
> The project will consist of a multimedia work of fiction, created through
> the medium of a Wiki.
>
> Although we don't expect the final product (if there can ever be such a
> thing) to be commercially viable, we would nevertheless wish to protect
> the rights of contributors in the event that we do end up with something
> of interest.
What rights do you want to protect? Freedom of religion? Right of habeus
corpus?
If you're talking about making money, get over it. Commercial
publication of CC-licensed works has been pretty sparse, except for the
occasions where book authors get their publishers to allow an already
published work to be distributed under a CC license. I don't think
there's a single case of it working the other way around (but examples
may be there).
For a wiki: more so. It would be practicably impossible for a publisher
to contact each and every one of your hundreds of contributors to get a
contract for commercial use. It's infeasible. It's never going to
happen.
If you're talking about making sure that their contributions, given
freely, stay free, you should look at the Attribution-ShareAlike
license. If you're worried about them getting credit for their work,
look at the Attribution license.
~Evan
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Evan Prodromou
evan at bad.dynu.ca
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