Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Glenn Otis Brown" <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

Hi Eric,

Your plan sounds fine. In fact, it's very similar to what we did with our
own, Creative Commons produced CD. Simply saying "Some Rights Reserved --
Creative Commons licensed for free use -- see ~by-nc/1.0/" would be fine.
You could also create a web page with the full copyright information on
it and a link to the licenses, and then simply put the URL to that page
on your CD. The key is simply to alert the public, in some form or other,
that this stuff is different from normal copyright, and to provide them
information on how to find the license.

Good question. Thanks for writing.

Glenn

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:26:30 -0700, "Erik Ostrom" <eostrom AT drowning.org>
said:
> I'm about to put together a cheap CD of some of the music I've been
> sharing
> on the web under a Creative Commons license.  Since I've already said the
> music is okay to copy online, I'd like to make the same statement about
> the
> CD, and the CC license seems like the right way to do it.
> 
> So I looked at the web site to see how to do it.  The thing is, "This
> work
> is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License.
> To
> view a copy of this license, visit
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/ or send a letter to
> Creative
> Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA." takes
> up a
> lot of room in a two-page insert.  It'd be by far the longest piece of
> text
> on the page.  So I'm leaning toward not doing that.
> 
> What I'm thinking about doing instead is including the "some rights
> reserved" license mark and enough information for people in the know to
> figure out which license I'm using (i.e., "by-nc/1.0").  This isn't
> enough
> to inform people about what they're actually allowed to do, but it gets
> the
> logo out there a little more and it gives enough hints for a curious
> person
> with a search engine to learn more.  And it does no harm, I think.
> 
> Is this reasonable?  I know the license mark is a trademarked image, and
> I
> don't want to use it in vain.
> 
> --Erik Ostrom
>   eostrom AT drowning.org
> 
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