Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Improbulus" <improbulus+cc-l1 AT gmail.com>]

Thanks for your quick and helpful answer Greg.

What about permission for commercial use, would the permission of every author in between, all the way back to the original, be needed too?

-----Original Message-----

From: Greg London [mailto:email AT greglondon.com]

Sent: 20 April 2005 23:06

To: Improbulus; Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts

Subject: Re: Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike - question

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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