Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller <sloyment AT gmx.net>]

Hi!

Let us please look at the following situation:

 * First, I create a work and release it under a free license.
 
 * Then someone falsely claims authorship to that work. 

Without a warranty given, that asshole can now start suing me and 
the people who distribute the work. This would be a real 
problem, but there is no real protection against it, anyway.

However, if I give a warranty, billions of people can start suing 
me in this situation. 

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Another scenario:

 * First, I receive a work under the CC-SA.

 * Next, I modify it and publish the modified work.

 * Later, it turns out that the first work was illegal.

The problem here is that when I publish the modified work, I have 
to warrant that my version is legal. However, there is no safe 
way for me to determine wether the upstream version was legal. 

With a bit odf bad luck, billions of people might choose to sue 
me and not the upstream author.

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It seems to me that licenses that demand a warranty are a can of 
worms, and I won't use them.

cu,
Thomas }:o{#
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