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  • From: rekrutacja <rekrutacja AT gazeta.pl>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: CC licenses legal advice for publishers needed
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:40:45 +0200

Hi all
I'm part of Creatice Commons Poland, which started a month ago. Right now we got a strange situation: we didn't have media campaign (yet), so there is not so many artist interested in publishing under Creative Commons licenses, but we are lobbiyng a lot, so there are several publishers from cultural, political and other magazines intersted in adopting CC-licenses model.
This leads to problems: in order to publish a work under CC license in their magazines publishers need authors approval. Written and signed, beacuase publishers don't want to get into future legal problems.
So all of them asked CC about such an approval form.
We got fierce discussion on polish cc list about it, but couldn't reach agreement what kind of contract/st atement/license is needed in such a case. Situation is unique, because usually author is a publisher itself, so he just attaches CC-license info. But there author is not a publisher of his work, and it's a publisher who want's to publish it under CC license.
My idea is that we should try to create some kind of legal FAQ for publishers and standarized forms they can use. Benefits of such service are quite obvious, i think.
First thoughts: we should make clear that publishers cannot use NC licenses, and also differantate cases where author just allows publishers to use his work under CC license from cases where publishers pays an author to write somehing what will be published under CC license
Please, share your opinions and ideas.
Jaroslaw Lipszyc







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