Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Friday 25 March 2005 10:08 am, Greg London wrote:
> Evan Prodromou said:
> > Unless this is going to stay focused on the retention of moral rights in
> > CC licenses, I strongly suggest that this conversation move to
> > cc-community.
>
> I'm starting to think the focus should be on the removal
> of moral rights. Unfortunately, what little I know and
> have heard about european law around this, is that
> European law does not allow an author to say up front:
>
> "I promise to never open the trap door underneath you"

Do the licenses allow specification of controlling legal jurisdiction? If 
not, 
could they and would this lead to a way to circumvent.

Could you have include in the license a restriction by the original author 
that if any derivative authors bring a suit on moral rights then they are in 
violation of the original authors copyrights?

Could you have the original author make the promise in a jurisdiction without 
moral rights, so that if they bring a suit in a moral rights country, the 
person they are bringing the suit against could counter-sue in the country in 
which the promise was made?

Other ideas?

At this point, let's please all try not to get bent out of shape. Let's 
explore possibilities to accomplish all objectives as well as have the 
discussion as to which objectives we whould persue.

all the best,

drew

From a question asked of someone else in another post, I am an author. Here 
is 
a link to some of my stuff release CC BY-SA:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22drew%20Roberts%22

Also, I wrote a 60,000 word "novel" as a part of nanowrimo 2004:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/userinfo.php?uid=47354

and am now trying to get some things worked out so that I can release it 
under 
a CC BY-SA license.

So far, I have not made any money from my artistic writings, but I have made 
some from original GPL programming and from customising GPL and other Free 
programs.