Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Matt Burrows" <mburrows2 AT earthlink.net>]

To clarify, the (c) and (p) notices provide benefits under copyright law (as
does registration).  Registration is required for US works for an
infringement suit (and, w/ some nuances, to collect statutory damages and
attorneys fees).



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Evan Prodromou" <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>
To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts"
<cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: copyright notice in addition to CC license notice?


> On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 11:35 -0700, Mark Ivey wrote:
> > If I have a CC license notice on my work, do I also need the copyright
> > notice?  I couldn't anything about this on the CC website.
> >
> > The instructions for using the GPL explicitly state that I need the
> > copyright notice so I assume I do for CC also.  Is that right?
>
> Let me tell you a little something about Bad Bart, Mark.
>
> OK, just kidding. Side issue there.
>
> The rule in the USA used to be that you _had_ to put a copyright notice
> on every work in order to retain copyright on it. This rule kind of
> disappeared back in the 70s when the USA joined the Berne Convention and
> we got the idea of "natural copyright" -- that is, that you
> automatically have a copyright on everything you produce.
>
> However, many if not most people still use the copyright notice format:
>
> Copyright YEAR, YEAR, YEAR NAME.
>
> ...or something along those lines. This is not strictly necessary, but
> it _is_ pretty useful; after all, knowing who holds the rights to a
> work, and what year(s) the work was made are pretty useful.
>
> For some reason, though, the Creative Commons Web site deprecates the
> use of copyright notices in favor of those "This work under a Creative
> Commons license" notices. I don't know why, but that's been the style
> for quite a long time.
>
> Anyways, to answer your question: no, you don't need to, but it helps.
>
> ~Evan
>
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> Evan Prodromou
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