[Cc-nz] FW: Use of Creative Commons in New Zealand
Robin Sheat
robin at kallisti.net.nz
Thu Apr 6 00:27:53 EDT 2006
On Thursday 06 April 2006 15:37, David Underwood wrote:
> But the advice from a lawyer friend of mine is that it falls under
> contract law, since a person implicitly accepts the terms of the
> license when they read/ listen/ view the CC'd material. So on that
> basis it should be enforcable.
I'm no lawyer, but that's not how I understood copyright worked. I always
thought it started off with no permissions, i.e. "you can't copy or
create derivative works of this", and then the author could add
allowances onto this, effectively giving permission in specific cases,
i.e. "you can copy this only if you are standing on one foot", or "you
can copy and create derivative works only if you allow others to do the
same under the same terms". However, most of what I know of copyright
comes from reading things about the US system.
There is (afaik) nothing that provides a limit on what a person may do
with a work, provided they don't violate the set of 'what copyright
restricts minus what the author allows'. You can't say "you can only read
this book standing on your head", as reading it isn't covered by
copyright.
(for ease of writing, I'm referring to 'author' as 'copyright holder'
here, they aren't always the same)
I'd like to see this confirmed or corrected however, I tend to think like
a programmer, and things aren't always that logical :)
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