Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Monday 17 October 2005 12:15 pm, S K wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am planning to release the pictures I have on my
> photoblog under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license but I
> want anyone using the material to drop me an email,
> not to ask for premission, just to let me know.
>
> My question has two parts
>
> (1) Does specifying this extra condition go against
> the letter and/or spirit of the CC license?

Goes against the letter. You can request, but not require.
>
> (2) If not, how should I word the extra condition?
> Would something like the one stated below do?
> "The usage of the materials on this site is governed
> by a Creative Commons
> Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License with
> an additional condition that you must notify the
> copyright owner about the usage of the material, by
> email at the email address shown below."

I think you could possibly get by with a request and and explanation as to 
why, but if you change the license itself, from what I understand, you cannot 
call it a CC license.
>
>
> I am not sure if this had been asked and answered
> before (absence of search feature does not help). If
> it has been, it would be glad if someone could point
> me to the archives in question.
>
> Thanks,
> SK
>
all the best,

drew
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