Development of Creative Commons licenses

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On Mon,  1 Mar 2004 16:40:59 -0500, CC AT iblist.com wrote:
> I can see I worded that very badly.  My intent of the 
> comment about downloading through me only was to 
> (legally) prevent people from using an automated program
> to scour the site.  There are a few programs out 
> there now that do this to major book sites, and I 
> don't agree with it.

I don't think anything in Copyright law covers
bots. You can license the work Non-Commercial only,
that won't prevent bots, but it will prevent anyone
from using the bot-gathered info commercially.

as for bots themselves: 
http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/010198I.html

> <b>The book, author, and series information from the database :</b>
> *Share Alike. 

> User reviews are the property of the individual that posted them. 

> (users give) iblist.com permission to display them on iblist.com only.

A couple of things. If all iblist really owns is the book/author/isbn
information, then that may be treated a bit differntly than 
"artistic expressions". I don't know what the current standing is
on whether or not you can copyright the phone book.

Secondly, if users own their reviews, granting iblist the right to 
copy/distribute their works verbatim, then iblist has no right to 
license the reviews as ShareAlike. The reviews effectively become
CC-NoDeriv.