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  • From: "Aaron Swartz" <me AT aaronsw.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Compilation copyright
  • Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:28:32 -0600

Amberleigh Young wrote:
> The attribution license seems to accomplish this, but my
> worry is that it also seems to allow anyone to batch
> download my entire site, change the branding, and set
> it up elsewhere, publish it in book form, or whatever.

I don't think you need a compilation copyright. Instead, you need simply
state something like:

"The text of the article presented here is available under [insert license].
However, the rest of the site, including the site design, is not."

A List Apart had a similar problem, wanting to license only the example code
in their articles, not the site itself.

However, I am not a lawyer or an expert on this matter.

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Aaron Swartz: http://www.aaronsw.com/
(still in exile)




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