Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

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

On 19 Feb 2006, at 14:08, QuotationsBook.com wrote:

> I maintain www.quotationsbook.com, a website of famous quotations.  
> The quotations can be reused under the "fair-use" provision of  
> international copyright law.

Sadly, we don't get the same Fair Use provisions in every country.  
Many Commonwealth countries only have the much more limiting Fair  
Dealing system. And I think there was some controversy over the scope  
of Fair Use in Japanese law on Wikipedia.

> However, which Creative Commons license does this map to?

All the CC licenses respect Fair Use, but there isn't a CC-Fair-Use  
license. I do think a "Fair Use Respected" tag would be a very useful  
thing for CC to provide, but this would only really be something the  
original rightsholder could apply.

> Can anyone advise about licensing famous quotations (clearly I  
> didn't write them myself!). The goal is to allow Yahoo!, Google and  
> importantly visitors, to identify my quotations as usable in a  
> specific setting, clearing up my currently non-existent legal  
> framework.

Wikiquote probably faced similar issues:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Copyrights

- Rob.