Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james.grimmelmann AT yale.edu>]

At 02:55 AM 8/5/2004, Marc A. Garrett wrote:

> Does creativecommons.org have suggested language to use when an image on
> my site falls outside the scope of my cc license?

I don't believe that CC has any official suggestions on the matter.

Speaking entirely personally (and not as a lawyer), I would think that 
something quite simple should work.

"This copyright on this picture is held by X.  The Creative Commons license 
that covers other content on this site does not apply to it."

> Example: when I post an interview, I sometimes get the permission of the
> interview subject to post pictures to accompany the interview --
> pictures to which they, not me, hold copyright. I want to make it clear
> to my users which objects on the site are not owned by me and not
> covered by the share-alike license.
>
> Also, it would be neat if I could tag an item as outside the scope of my
> license; that way either a computer or human reading my site would know
> how to respond.

This issue is more relevant to the metadata list, so I'm cc'ing this thread 
over there.  It is an important idea and a relevant issue.

James