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  • From: Glenn Otis Brown <glenn AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: licence without original author credit
  • Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:33:02 -0800

The 2.0 licenses allow the author to waive the attribution requirement. All you have to do is specify, where you attach the license to a page or a song, that you're waiving the attribution requirement. Here is the relevant text:

"<x-tad-smaller> c. If you distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work or any Derivative Works or Collective Works, You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing by conveying the name (or pseudonym if applicable) of the Original Author if supplied;"

note: "if supplied" -- so if you don't want attribution, don't supply a name, or supply a pseudonym, or make clear in the copyright notice that you don't want attribution</x-tad-smaller>




On Feb 28, 2005, at 5:30 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:15:09PM +0100, incite wrote:

like to share our music without this complication. is there a way to
obtain a cc-license without this obligation?

You'd have to use one of the Version 1.0 licenses. All of the 2.0
licenses contain the attribution requirements. There's been previous
debate about this; perhaps you'd like to weigh in on the subject in more
detail.

At any rate, while you can modify the text of the CC 2.0 licenses to
suit your needs, you wouldn't be able to call it a CC license at that
point. So, either the 1.0 licenses, or a modified 2.0 license, seems
like the way to go.

You may also want to look at the CC sampling licenses, which may be
different. Perhaps they'll be more appropriate to your needs than the
regular CC licenses listed on the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
page.

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