Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Diane Peters <diane AT creativecommons.org>]

A licensor cannot restrict use of their CC-licensed work to a digital online copy only.  Once applied, our licenses are clear that licensees may exercise the rights in any media and format (digital, print, etc.).  The same license terms and restrictions continue to apply to the work -- NC in the example you provide.

Tarmo is correct as to dual licensing.  If the online copy and the printed copy are the same work as a matter of copyright and the licensor applies a different CC license to each copy, the licensor is offering the same work under two different licenses and a licensee can choose to exercise the rights under whichever without violating the licensor's copyright.

We are publishing new FAQs the first of this week which should clear up these and related issues about how the licenses operate.  We'll make sure to post those to this list as well as our usual lists once finalized.

Thanks,

Diane

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Tarmo Toikkanen <tarmo.toikkanen AT iki.fi> wrote:

The author is of course allowed to give out multiple licenses, either different global licenses, or contracts with invididual parties.

The author cannot give out different licenses for different uses. It’s impossible to say “CC BY-NC for such-and-such, and CC BY for something else”. If you license content with several CC licenses, then that content is available under all of them, and the user may select which license they want to follow.

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On Sunday 15. 12 2013 at 10.26, Shrinivasan T wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

It means, even though if a author released his digital content in

CC-NC, he can give rights to any publishers for printing with "All

rights reserved for publishers" license.

Can a CC-NC licensed digital content be printed with some other

license ( Non CC ), with the author's permission?

This seems the author can release his content in multiple license for

various medium.

Am I right?

Apologies for many questions.

Getting so many questions from public when I do evangelism for CC.

2013/12/15 Tarmo Toikkanen <tarmo.toikkanen AT iki.fi>:

You solve the issue by contacting the authors of the content you need, and

negotiate a permission for your use.

What authors can do already is use CC+, meaning they give out a CC license

and indicate where and how to gain (usually, purchase) access to additional

rights.

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On Sunday 15. 12 2013 at 10.06, Shrinivasan T wrote:

Friends.

I have a doubt on the term "non-commercial"

I seen a digital content with the following license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode

Though the content is shared free of cost with all attributions

digitally online,

I want to print the content as a printed book and share with people.

Printing as book needs some money and can not give the printed book

for free for all.

So, we need to have some minimum cost as price for the book.

But, now this become commercial. Hence, can not sell the book as per

license.

How to solve this issue?

Can we have dual license for print and digital media?

Is it possible for CC license for digital versions and "All rights

reserved publishers" or something similar for print versions?

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