Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

On 10 Jun 2005, at 21:43, kebunhouse wrote:

> I'm a fashion designer interested in using a CC license to make some
> of my patterns available for download. I'm having a hard time deciding
> what type of license I would need. I would make  the patterns
> available in digital image form, say as a jpg or pdf. Since the user
> would have to print out the image in order to use it, does the rights
> still apply to the paper form?

Yes. The paper print is a copy of the digital file, so people need  
your permission to make that copy.

> And is it better to get an "image" license versus an "other" license?

The format isn't important for the licence, it just gets added to the  
machine-readable data if you use that.

What is important is choosing how you want people to be able to use  
your work: commercially, modifying it, requiring that they share  
changes.

> Is a CC license the best choice for my needs?

It depends: how do you want people to be able to use your work?

There's an example of someone distributing patterns under a CC  
license here:

http://www.savvyseams.com/

- Rob.

> Thanks.
> khouse
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