Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Henri Sivonen <hsivonen AT iki.fi>]

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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Henri Sivonen
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