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  • From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen AT iki.fi>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: no-derivatives question
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:32:06 +0200

On Mar 21, 2005, at 14:10, James Nash wrote:

I'm a university student working on a report for my final year project. I want to license it under a CC license and the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ seems to match my requirements best, but I have a question regarding the no-derivatives bit.

I have chosen it to ensure that if my report is copied / distributed it remains unchanged. However, the wording of the license says: "You may not alter, transform, or *build upon this work*" [my emphasis]. Now while I don't want people to just take the report, make some changes and call it their own, I *do* want them to be able to quote it, and to reuse or build upon the ideas covered within it.

Can someone please confirm that people will still have this freedom with the above license and if not tell me which CC license I can use to ensure this.

For the time being, quoting is still considered Fair Use in the US and otherwise protected in sane jurisdictions where the term Fair Use does not exist. The CC licenses can't and don't try to limit Fair Use. See section 2 of the license.

IANAL. This is not legal advice. #include "disclaimer.h"

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