Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

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

    Me> I guess my main point is that the Attribution section is the
    Me> only place in the Creative Commons licenses where you're
    Me> required to keep the copyright notice. If there's no
    Me> Attribution section (as with nc 1.0, nd 1.0, sa 1.0, nc-sa 1.0,
    Me> et. al.), there's no requirement to keep copyright notices.

    GL> I dunno. I keep reading CC-BY-NC-20 (alphanumeric soup now)
    GL> and it sounds like the Copyright Notice is mandatory. 

You may want to contrast nc-1.0:

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc/1.0/legalcode

The copyright notice part is the restriction that's included only in
by-* licenses.

    GL> I suppose if the original work doesn't contain a notice, then
    GL> derivative works don't need a notice. But doesn't a notice
    GL> protect against claims of "innocent infringement"?  And if
    GL> you're going the NC route, aren't you looking to protect your
    GL> commercial interests, and would therefore want a copyright
    GL> notice even if you dont want "attribution".

Yep. I'm not sure we're arguing that much. I think we might be talking
at cross purposes. When I say "Attribution" I'm particularly talking
about the clause in the CC licenses that requires the following to be
provided in Collective or Derivative Works:

         1) copyright notice(s)
         2) author name
         3) title
         4) "linkback" URI (new in 2.0)
         5) changelog

It sounds like when you say "attribution" (small-a), you might mean
some or all of the last four of these.

If the question is, "Should the Attribution-less (capital-A) license
be reinstated for the 2.0 licenses?", I think there's three options:

           1) No. Just add extra disclaimers of some kind ('if
              supplied' or 'revocation').
           2) Yes. No requirement for any of the above stuff.
           3) Kinda. Make a different requirement for copyright
              notices, but nothing else.

Does that make sense?

~ESP

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