[cc-licenses] more on v3.0
Jessica Coates
j2.coates at qut.edu.au
Tue Jun 6 21:16:03 EDT 2006
Rather belatedly, some comments from CC-AU on the v3.0 proposal, to add to
the existing discussion:
1. Moral rights
We strongly support the incorporation of a moral rights icon in the Commons
Deed. This will ensure that both authors and users are fully informed of
their rights and responsibilities under the licences.
We'd also be interested in people's views on the possibility of having a
question regarding moral rights on the 'choose licence' page, for at least
some jurisdictions (eg where moral rights can be waived, or have to be
actively asserted). It would increase the number of licence variations, but
it would also reduce criticism that CC steals artists' moral rights, whilst
still giving people the choice to make their material even less restricted
(where the law allows).
2. Glossary
As part of the disambiguation strategy (great name) we'd also like to
propose that a 'glossary page' (or something equivalent) be set up on the CC
site. This could contain short, non-legal descriptions of some of the
technical terms that surround Creative Commons licences (eg fair use, moral
rights).
Uses of these terms (eg in the Commons Deed) could then be linked to these
definitions. This would provide a lot of assistance for people wanting to
know, for example, what 'Your fair use and other rights are in no way
affected by the above' means.
The descriptions would, of course, not be able to be complete (listing all
the fair use rights for all countries would be impractical) but could at
least give people a basic understanding of what these terms mean, and
perhaps give them an idea how to find out more.
Thoughts?
Jessica Coates
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