Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>]

Even the work-for-hire part can be worked around, if you
are careful up front. This is where a lawyer would have
to work with you to draft a Contract that you would have
anyone sign that wanted to commision you to do a painting.
The contract would state in some legalese that you retain
copyright on the expression and the person who hired you
"disclaims" any and all copyrights on the work.

I know Open Source people use this approach when hired
to do work on their software for someone.


Stephen Woodward said:
> That was where my thinking was going.  I appreciate all the input.  Of
> course I will consult a lawyer to be certain on all counts.  I think
> the work for hire bit was the one thing I was missing that puts a bit
> more light on the subject for me, in reguards to how the rights to
> distribute one of my creations can either be taken away, or not even be
> there to begin with.  10 years ago I wouldn't have even though about
> how the law would affect my creativity.  but nowadays, you have to look
> over your shoulder constantly.  My nightmare would be someone else
> telling the world that they can't distribute my works the way I
> intended.