Question: What does sublicense mean?
Rob Myers
robmyers at mac.com
Wed Apr 6 08:53:57 EDT 2005
On Wednesday, April 06, 2005, at 01:41PM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
>That is how I saw things and wrote him a nice heads up to alert him to a
>possible problem. He seems to think the sublicense clause will cover the
>situation.
>
>Perhaps it will if "royalty-free collection" has some special meaning in the
>industry (I am trying to find that out as well) but just for plain english, I
>could put together a collection of CC BY and BY-SA works and sell them and,
>so long as the buyers used them in keeping with the licenses, I don't see the
>legal problem.
>
>So again, I gather he thinks he is clarifying the license. I am not yet sure.
>I think that, unless there is some accepted industry standard as to what
>rights a "royalty-free collection" must come with, this could be additional
>agreements which are outside the license and thus have no validity.
As with the Groklaw disclaimer, if it's a clarification it needs to be phrased as such, not made to look like an additional condition.
If the licensor wants to stop the work being used in a """royalty free""" collection, this would presumably be handled both by the no sublicensing clause and by 8e, which wouldn't allow addition of the usual """royalty free""" restrictions. The no-DRM clause might come into effect as well. IANAL, though.
So something like: "Note that since this Creative Commons license does not allow sublicensing or the addition of extra licenseing conditions, this work may not be included as part of a licensed 'royalty free' artwork collection".
Maybe, IANAL, etc.
- Rob.
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