Development of Creative Commons licenses

[rob AT robmyers.org]

Quoting Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT zmsl.com>:

> Bjorn Wijers wrote:
> > As far as I know this has become the 2.5 version of the licenses.

That seems to be the case.

> > There
> > is now the possibility to add a third party  as the licensor? So you can
> > for instance use the name of the place where your wiki resides..
>
> How, does this mean that this third party owns the copyright or does it
> just mean that the third party gets the credit?

Just the attribution.

I'm not sure how well this will work in strong moral-rights jurisdictions.

> This is relevant because if the third party gets the copyright, they can
> also choose to re-license under different terms later on. From what I
> readon the license, this isn't the case at all, and it just says that
> for attribution you can just name this third party (e.g. the wiki).

Copyright assignment is a separate issue. For a free-and-easy wiki it would
create a high barrier to entry. But it would make sense for some kinds of
projects and I think more people should look at GNU's example.

- Rob.