[cc-licenses] multiple licenses of same image

Peter Brink peter.brink at brinkdata.se
Sat Jan 27 06:18:36 EST 2007


drew Roberts skrev:
> 
> So again I ask, would it not be clearer to change the license from "the work" 
> to "this instance of the work and all instances made or derived from it."
>

Perhaps "licensed copy"? A quick check of a few Swedish standard form 
contracts, dealing with copyright matters, reveals that the term "work" 
is only used when all economic rights to a works are transferred from 
the author to for example a publisher. The term "licensed copy" is used 
when the license only applies to the a specific copy of a work.

> Plus, surely I can sell you a license without providing you with the work 
> itself at all?

Yes of course. Collecting societies does this all the time. If I would 
own a restaurant I would have to pay a collecting society for playing 
music to entertain my guests and that license wouldn't be included with 
any of the CD's that I bought.

/Peter Brink



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