Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Branko Collin" <collin AT xs4all.nl>]

On 20 Oct 2004, at 2:46, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:

> > Some of my co-workers however got the impression from Roland that we
> > should just offer people the actual 'CC' logo to overlay, and leave
> > it up to stream providers to provide further licensing details on
> > their website.
> > 
> > So I am writing this list hoping for some final advice on which
> > approach we should take on the overlaying :)
> 
> I'd question going with the co-workers on this one, but I tend to
> favor not interfering with the artistic image at all.  I think too
> much screen real estate is taken up with all the logos one could use
> to describe various aspects of the work one is trying to see.

Doesn't overlaying a logo create a derivative work? If so, that would 
be a form of copyright infringement. Hardly the thing to aim at.

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branko collin
collin AT xs4all.nl