Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 26 Jan 2005, at 03:00, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> Bryan L. Fordham wrote:
> > I'm working on updating the language in a public domain book.
> [...]
> > I'd like to release the finished product under a CC license, but I'd 
> > like to check and make sure that it's fine to do that with public 
> > domain works.  I'm assuming it is, but figured I'd ask first
>
> You can do anything you want with PD works, including CC license a 
> derivative.

But remember that King James is under a special perpetual copyright in 
the UK:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Bible#Copyright_status

So careful importing any derivatives here. :-)

Peter Pan also gets special provisions in the Copyrights & Patents act, 
so that's another one to watch out for (in the UK).

- Rob.