Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Melanie Dulong de Rosnay" <melanie.dulong-de-rosnay AT cersa.org>]

Hi,

We are also constantly contacted by publishers or project leaders to valid
or draft contracts complementary to CC licences.
It is difficult to explain that we can neither give legal advice nor provide
the full value chain tools for all online distribution cases around CC
licensing.

We were also thinking about providing a template or FAQ for side-contracts,
so that website owners who are not lawyers can draft themselves plain text
copyright licenses to have the authorization to publish author's works under
CC.
But you're right, each situation is unique, and providing a template may
lead to even more questions...

About your first thoughts: I do not understand why publishers should not use
NC, and I agree to differentiate simple use from production with
remuneration, so different templates.
Maybe 3 or 4 use cases could be easily defined.

Can we include this in Harvard agenda discussion?

Thanks,
Melanie from CC France


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Objet : CC licenses legal advice for publishers needed


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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