Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>]

Attribution goes all the way back to the original author.
Every author in between must be attributed.

An alternative is the CC-Wiki license which has downstream
authors assign attribution to a central project
rather than listing every individual.

But if you want attribution even when the
great-great-great-great-great-grandson of your
original work is born, then use CC-Attribution.



Improbulus said:
> It seems to me that Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike is the closest to
> what I'm looking for, but there is one point which is unclear to me, and I'd
> be very grateful if someone would be so kind as to clear it up please?
>
> In relation to derivatives, I'd be happy for people to build on my work. But
> if they have to release their work on the same terms, surely this just means
> that anyone who then builds upon that derivative work only needs to credit 
> the
> creator of that derivative work (and get their permission for commercial use
> etc), and doesn't have to credit me or get my permission as well?
>
> In other words am I right in thinking there's only one "generation" of
> permission/attribution that's needed for share alike, and you don't have to 
> go
> back to previous/original authors?
>
> If the first derivative work is very heavily based on your work, how do you
> prevent this generation upon generation dilution of your right to be 
> involved,
> which could of course get worse if someone else produces another derivative
> work based largely on the first derivative work, etc?
>
> Would the only way be to forbid derivatives altogether?
>
> Many thanks in advance
> Improbulus.
>
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