Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Tom Morris <tom AT bbcity.co.uk>]

On 16 Apr 2004, at 05:47, Brian Boyko wrote:

> I cannot do that without either taking the copyright away from them, 
> or by requiring Creative Commons work.
>
> What I would like to do is require those who sign up to the forum to 
> agree to an "opt-out" creative commons license that has the 
> attribution and share-alike provisions. If a person does not want a 
> specific post under the Creative Commons licence, I'd like them to 
> have to say that in the post "This work is not governed by the 
> Creative Commons License."  If a particular poster (for whatever 
> reason) wants to retain the copyright to ALL his work (including 
> offhand comments) he can simply put that statement into his signature 
> file.
>
> I'll muddle through the technical details, but how would I go about 
> finding a licence like that?

Simple. Make it so that when people sign up for the forum they are 
asked whether or not they agree with a provision saying that they 
licence all their content under CC licence of your choice. If they do, 
you include it. If they don't, you don't.

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Tom Morris
http://www.bbcity.co.uk