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  • From: Antoin O Lachtnain <antoin AT eire.com>
  • To: cc-ie AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-ie] Basic question...
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:37:47 +0000


the creative commons people are adopting what would be called in computing land a 'stack' or 'layer model' approach to this.

If you look at http://creativecommons.org/projects/international/ it explains it somewhat.

There are some fundamental problems at the core of what is being done here. The licenses are translations into local law, to ensure the CC principles or 'deed' are enacted in as similar as possible a way in all jurisdictions.

There is a fair degree of second-guessing involved here. It's theoretically quite tricky. It is obviously impossible to guarantee that the different contracts will all be implemented into practice in the same way in all countries as a result of the 'translegalisation'.

In practice, though, this is the sort of approach large companies use to standardize their contracts for services and software licenses and the like. It's worked for the likes of Oracle, ATT and IBM, so it will probably be fine for this purpose too.

So to answer the questions you actually asked:


a) Are the generic CC licences valid in Ireland?

as valid as any other licence or contract.


b) If I choose the Irish licence what do I do if I want to restrict/open
certain rights, as I can with the generator?

eventually (i guess) there will be a generator which takes country into account. For the moment, you just use the standard one. The 'digital code' will be the same anyway.

Antoin.



Antoin O Lachtnain
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