Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Chris Morris <chrismo AT clabs.org>]

Elisabeth Riba wrote:

> I know this is a novice question, but I can't seem to find the answer
> offhand.
>
> I'm thinking of adding a CC license to my weblog, but I make a lot of
> fair-use quotes of other people's materials (generally from news stories,
> but also the occasional book excerpt or use of somebody else's photo).
>
> Can anybody recommend a good disclaimer for my weblog which identifies
> that only MY creations are under CC license, without hurting the rights of
> anybody else? [And without necessitating I edit existing weblog posts to
> put copyright notices in them?]
>  
I always assumed (I'm not a lawyer) that since my fair-use quote didn't 
require any licensing, that the quote itself is sort of a fair-use 
island inside my CC licensed stuff.

If I'm allowed to quote it under fair-use (assuming it is fair-use), 
everyone else should be allowed to make the same quote on their own, 
therefore there's no need for such a disclaimer.

Just my very non-lawyerly half-cent.

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Chris
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