Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Alex Schroeder <alex AT emacswiki.org>]

Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org> writes:

>     e> But once you do this, you would have to get permission from
>     e> every contributer if you wanted to relicense the work for
>     e> someone.
>
> Another option is that you could ask contributors to assign
> copyright to you. 

In Switzerland you cannot "assign copyright" -- the "droit d'auteur"
rests with you.  All you can do is license your work; and sometimes
this is assumed to happen automatically, for example when you write
stuff as an employee.

This, writing free software, you would have to ask all contributors
to grant you some license X which would allow you to relicense their
stuff or something.

I don't know what the real issues would be (I would have to consult
with some experts); my main point is that the expression "assign
copyright" really cannot be applied universally.

With CC's attempt at internationalizing its efforts, such subtleties
may or may not be important enough to spell out.  Specially since
most of the free software projects I am working on include
contributors from all over the world.

Alex.
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