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  • From: Christiane Asschenfeldt <christiane AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: cc-devnations AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Cc: Vera Franz <vfranz AT osieurope.org>, Jerzy Celichowski <celichow AT osi.hu>
  • Subject: [cc-devnations] Fwd: developing countries lincese
  • Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:55:10 +0100

Dear Jerzy,

thank you very much for your interest in the developing nations license.

I forwarded your email to the developing nations mailing list.

Jamie Love will be able to answer your questions.

All the best,

Christiane



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From: Jerzy Celichowski <celichow AT osi.hu>
Date: 28. September 2004 15:54:20 GMT+01:00
To: Christiane Asschenfeldt <christiane AT creativecommons.org>
Cc: Vera Franz <vfranz AT osieurope.org>
Subject: developing countries lincese
Reply-To:
celichow AT osi.hu

Dear Christiane,

My colleague Vera Franz has suggested that I approach you with my
question regarding the developing countries lincense. I think that I
should briefly introduce the context of this question first.

Open Society Institute, which I work for, has been supporting
translations into the languages of East Central Europe, Central Asia
and, recently, Arabic for most of the last decade. The bulk of the
translations has been from Western languages although we have also
sponsored translations among these languages.

When I heard about the developing countries lincese I immediately
started thinking about what it could mean for our translation project. I
am talking to my colleagues about an initiative involving promotion
through grants of titles available for translation under developing
countries license through our network of contacts in the East European,
Central Asian and Arabic countries. I am writing a paper about this
idea, which we will discuss next month at a meeting and I would like to
ask for clarification of a point in the license.

If you publish a translation of a title made available under dev.
countries license do you retain control of the translation rights? I
guess that the answer is in clause 4 (restrictions) but I am not sure
how to interpret it, could you help with this.

As you can imagine, publishers deciding to publish a translation to a
title available under the license should have no problems with the
theoretical possibility of someone else publishing another translation
of this title but can be reasonably expected to be reluctant to agree to
make their translation available to anyone.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Jerzy Celichowski

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Jerzy Celichowski
deputy director
Information Program
Open Society Institute
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information
1051 Budapest
Oktober 6. utca 12.
Hungary
mobile +36 20 4546 548
phone +36 1 327 3135
fax +36 1 327 3042


Christiane Asschenfeldt
Alte Schoenhauser Strasse 35
10119 Berlin
Germany
www.creativecommons.org/projects/international


  • [cc-devnations] Fwd: developing countries lincese, Christiane Asschenfeldt, 10/08/2004

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