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[John Hendrik Weitzmann <jhweitzmann AT mx.uni-saarland.de>]

Hi Alek et al,

the fallback in CC0 is less than CC BY, because it lacks the BY. So it's 
basically an unconditional perpetual world-wide license for everyone. 
That's why I think it is not really a big deal if someone points to 
CC0's waiver being disfunctional in Europe. The fallback is just as good 
legally :)

Best
John



Am 08.03.2011 11:47, schrieb Paul Keller:
> Hi Alex and all,
> i can give a lot of background information on this (this is something that we 
> are working on with europeana), but i will be offline for the rest of today 
> so i wont be able to do so before tomorrow... /paul
>
> On 8 Mar 2011, at 11:13, Alek Tarkowski wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I've just been told by a POlish librarian working for Europeana Local
> > that Europeana is considering using CC0 for metadata. THis means of
> > course, that the mechanism would be pushed to a broad range of digital
> > libraries in Europe.
> >
> > Since this will be something that will affect us all, I wonder whether
> > we shouldn't have a common position on this. My worry relates to the
> > well known problems with whether CC0 is a valid mechanism in European
> > legal systems. I know there is the CC BY fallback, , and some reasons to
> > use a disfunctional mechanism with a functional fallback (to make a
> > statement with how this should be done, as opposed to can be done) - but
> > I still feel uneasy with this solution, if we'll de facto end up using
> > CC BY for metadata, why not just license it with CC BY? It's a quite
> > confusing construction in an already esoteric field of metadata licensing.
> >
> > Paul, I assume you might know a lot about this, I'd be happy to learn
> > what you think.
> >
> > And grateful for any other thoughts.
> >
> > As a side note, in Poland we haven't implemented CC0 for abovementioned
> > reasons - anyone else has the same problem? Or even better, anyone has
> > found a working solution for this, a way to think about CC0 in their
> > jurisdiction?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alek
> >
> > --
> > dr Alek Tarkowski
> > koordynator / public lead
> > Creative Commons Polska / Poland
> > www: http://creativecommons.pl
> > identica: http://identi.ca/alek
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/atarkowski
> >
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