Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Evan Prodromou wrote:
> So, I find the whole iCommons thing really confusing. If my Work is
> under a Creative Commons license, isn't that a world-wide license? Or
> is that only the USA?

A current CC license may be used worldwide, just like any free software 
license drafted in the US (AFAIK that's the case for every significant 
free software license).

The iCommons legal ports allow you to choose a license fine-tuned to a 
specific legal regime, should you feel the need.  I doubt a typical 
open-to-the-world website would want to do such a thing, but it could be 
important to institutions operating in/under a given jurisdiction, for 
example.

(Of course I'm not a lawyer, let alone an international copyright 
lawyer, so take LSD above my non-advice!)

> Is iCommons localization to particular legal jurisdictions, or just
> translation to different languages?

The former.

> Lastly, of course, ShareAlike. Can I take by-sa content and modify and
> redistribute under (say) by-sa-ja or whatever?

You will be able to when we version. :-) :-(, take your pick.

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