Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Alexandre Dulaunoy <alexandre.dulaunoy AT ael.be>]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Brad Collins wrote:

> 
> Has anyone been working on a library declaration which can be used to
> indicate that a copy held on a server is an archive copy which may or
> may not be restricted?  If the licence for the item is known it can be
> pointed to.....

> 
> Many countries (well, I've only looked this up here in Thailand so
> far) there is provision in copyright laws for Libraries to make copies
> of material for non-commercial use.
> 
> I'm working on a project which will be archiving content for a 
> Library (inspired by the 10,000 year clock & library from LongNow.org)
> and integrating the growing body of PD domain and free content which
> is scattered around the Net in hundreds of different projects.

We  have  a  current  project  (Andria  Project)  at  the  Association
Electronique  Libre,  to time-stamp  and  archive  free  works on  the
long-term.  The project  is at  the  early stage  but you  can find  a
current working draft on our wiki  (so you can also make your comments
if you want) :

http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/ProjectAndria




> We intend to use archive copies for:
> 
>    a) archival purposes (keeping copyright content safe until it
>    enters the public domain).

Why  until  ?  Public  domain   is  also  under  pressure.  Take  into
consideration  a proprietary "product"  (for example  an encyclopedia)
having a mix of PD and copyrighted works and the all content protected
by a technical measure. It's better to keep back also the PD works. 

> 
>    b) creating a reference copy which anyone can point to in whole or
>    part. This allows a permanent means of making references to a part of
>    a text or media item.  This could be used for creating bookmarks,
>    footnotes, references etc.

Yes, this is really important to have a permanent reference.

> 
> There is actually a lot more, but you get the idea....
> 
> So my question really is, how do archives like Brewster Kahle's stuff
> or my project fit into the whole CC frame-work?  
> 
> A CC licence refers to the Expression[1](see note below) of a Work and
> it's derivative Expressions and Instances of that Work.

We  have  also various  discussion  and we  want  to  only store  free
works. As  some CC licensed  works under this  style but not  all (for
example the non-commercial use of works, this is (in our approach) not
a free work). As we use the free description of the FSF. 

Don't hesitate to  contact us, if you have  more comments or questions
regarding the Andria project.

Thanks,

Have a nice day,

adulau

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