Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>]

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 10:06 -0500, Sincaglia, Nicolas wrote:
> How do you know the person who posted the creative work really is the rightful owner of that work?
In the CC 1.0 license suite, there was a section including a representation by the licensor that they had cleared the rights for the work:
>     5. Representations, Warranties and Disclaimer

By offering the Work for public release under this License, Licensor represents and warrants that, to the best of Licensor's knowledge after reasonable inquiry:

1. Licensor has secured all rights in the Work necessary to grant the license rights hereunder and to permit the lawful exercise of the rights granted hereunder without You having any obligation to pay any royalties, compulsory license fees, residuals or any other payments;
2. The Work does not infringe the copyright, trademark, publicity rights, common law rights or any other right of any third party or constitute defamation, invasion of privacy or other tortious injury to any third party.

Sadly, this was changed for CC 2.0. There was talk of releasing some kind of warranty tool as an option for the 2.0 licenses, but that never happened.

~Evan

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Evan Prodromou
evan AT bad.dynu.ca

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