[cc-licenses] Looking for a "mashup license"
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Sep 24 04:06:27 EDT 2007
Drop freshness requirement and use a CC license or look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_Project#License_and_requirements
IMO encouragement of freshness via legal means seems inappropriate,
perhaps that is why almost nobody uses the license referenced above and
nobody attempts to condition use of (e.g.) feeds on regular polling.
The technology makes that the natural thing to do anyway.
Daniel Schwarz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working with a nonprofit website that maintains a specialized set
> of restaurant listings and reviews. Almost all of their listings come
> from their user community, the listings are extensive and frequently
> updated.
>
> The website maintainers are interested in adopting a license for their
> data that would:
>
> 1) Allow reuse for noncommercial purposes
> 2) Require proper attribution
> 3) Require use of "fresh data" from the website.
>
> The idea is to permit noncommercial "mashups" using live data from the
> website (screen scraped or via API), or perhaps cached data that is no
> more than, say, 1 week old. Stale data might be incorrect, for that
> reason site maintainers do not want to permit use of old data.
>
> Questions for the list:
>
> 1) Does this make sense?
> 2) Would any of the CC licenses be suitable?
> 3) If not, is this a compelling enough use case to merit a new CC license?
>
>
> Best,
>
> Dan Schwarz
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