Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

>>>>> "GL" == Greg London <email AT greglondon.com> writes:

    GL> No one's mouth is watering for Founders Copyright.  therefore
    GL> I think it will remain a protest license that won't actually
    GL> change much.

Well, be that as it may, the actual program to make the Founders'
Copyright work doesn't seem to have actually ever gotten off the
ground. So it's kind of a moot point.

Note that the Founders' isn't anything like the other CC licenses. You
can't just say, "This book/movie/photo is available under the
Founders' Copyright." You have to _apply_ to use the
Founders'. There's actually money that changes hands and some kind of
contract agreement that happens, and Creative Commons has some
bookkeeping it has to do.

     http://creativecommons.org/projects/founderscopyright/

If I can summarize: the deal is that the copyright holder sells their
work to Creative Commons for $1. CC then licenses the work back to the
copyright holder for 14 or 28 years. After that, assumably, the work
is dedicated the public domain.

There's supposed to be an online registry where all the works that
have been bought by CC are listed. There isn't one; my feeling this is
because no works were ever bought.

Maybe some works _were_ actually bought; there's not a clear record of
that anywhere I can find. Maybe someone else knows.

~ESP

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