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  • From: Jim Cheetham <jim AT gonzul.net>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: what is freedom? was: Re: Why do you have to chose the 'Attribution' option with the new CC 2.0 Licenses?
  • Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:04:16 +1200

Greg London wrote:
With CC-NC, the author reserves the right to take
an action that could harm the community contributions.

With GNU-GPL, the author surrenders that right irrevocably.

No. With either license, a "big-name company" can approach the original author, who explicitly CAN re-license their own original work under whatever new terms they desire.

They just can't re-license the versions that have evolved under CC-NC/GPL/Whatever, because they do not hold copyright over 100% of that work.

I don't have a problem with CC-NC. I've licensed some of my
writing that way, and intend to do some more when I have the time.
I'm doing it in the hopes of generating some interest in my
writing so that people will buy my sci-fi book.

Right ... so when you become a big-name author (and hopefully you will), and a publisher wants to print a retrospective of all your works, will they be able to include the writings that were originally released CC-NC? You seem to be saying "No, because the retrospective will be a commercial work", whereas I think you should be saying "Not the version that was CC-NC, but I can license you another copy under different terms, because I am the author = I hold the copyright".

-jim




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