[Cc-uk] RE: [Creative-friends] latest news concerning BBC- CC-UK licences

Rob Myers robmyers at mac.com
Mon Oct 4 05:26:37 EDT 2004


On Monday, October 04, 2004, at 10:09AM, Tsiavos,P  (pgr) <P.Tsiavos at lse.ac.uk> wrote:

>We are currently working very closely with the BBC in order to come up with either
>(a) a single licence for the creative archive and the CC-UK or
>(b) a basic CC-Uk licence that will be compatible with the CC 2.0 and a BBC CA licence that would be the CC-UK licence plus some modules that will serve particular BBC purposes

Wow! That's great!

>All the comments that have been made in relation to the previous draft of the CC-UK have been taken into consideration for the BBC/ CC-UK licence, but the wording has been substantially changed in order to reduce the size of the licence.

Is it still in Plain English?

And how about waiving Moral Rights? I know it's last-minute, but that does seem important, particularly with the prospect of them being restorable using BY and "IN" if that comes through. 

Good luck with the launch.

- Rob.


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