Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

Evan Prodromou said:
>     "If You create a Collective Work, upon notice from any Licensor
>     You must, to the extent practicable, remove from the Collective
>     Work any reference to such Licensor or the Original Author, as
>     requested. If You create a Derivative Work, upon notice from any
>
>     "If you distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or
>     publicly digitally perform the Work or any Derivative Works or
>     Collective Works, You must keep intact all copyright notices for
>     the Work and give the Original Author credit reasonable to the
>     medium or means You are utilizing by conveying the name (or
>     pseudonym if applicable) of the Original Author if supplied;"

> Could this be used to arbitrarily revoke the license? "I want you to
> remove my name, which you have to do under the license, but you can't
> redistribute this work or derived works without my name, so you just
> can't redisribute at all."

evil thoughts, man.  ;)

I can't imagine a court case deciding that a request to
remove an author's name allows the author to claim
infringement or breach of license/contract or whatever.

The "intent" of the Author, in using that license, would
not seem to support arbitrary revokation.

however, in a lawsuit happy world, it might be of
value to clarify the license.