[Cc-uk] Implementing the UK license

Nick Poole nick at mda.org.uk
Fri Oct 15 09:01:27 EDT 2004


Dear All,

Please regard this as a tentative toe in the water for a new subscriber to the list!

I have been following the development of the CC licensing framework with interest 
for some time, and am very pleased to see the development of a UK-specific strain. I 
have also been looking through the archive of previous postings.

My organisation, the mda (http://www.mda.org.uk) is a public-sector charity working 
with the UK museums community. Because we have a 'public good' purpose, and 
one of our core functions is the publication and dissemination of information, we 
have already started to make use of the 'generic' CC licenses, specifically the 
Attribution-Noncommercial-Derivs 2.0 license.

I have two questions, which Id like to offer to the list for discussion: 

1. Are the licenses actually legally binding on anyone, or would we need to wait for 
UK case law to demonstrate their that they are? I know that the principle is to 
release, rather than reserve, some rights, but what of those rights which are still 
reserved? 

2. When the UK-specific variant becomes available, should we replace our existing 
non-specific licenses with UK ones? Would this make them any more or less 
applicable, for example if we were to discover someone re-selling our copyright 
content on a commercial basis?

Apologies if these are typical newbie questions, but I'd be very interested in your 
thoughts. 

Yours sincerely,

Nick Poole



Nick Poole
Director
Mda

The Spectrum Building
The Michael Young Centre
Purbeck Road
Cambridge
CB2 2PD

Telephone: 01223 415 760
Email: nick at mda.org.uk
Website: http://www.mda.org.uk




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