Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>]

You would need to get your contributers to agree
to assign all rights of their contributions to you.
This would be some sort of agreement you would set
up on your wiki, that by contributing, the person
agrees to assign all copyrights to their contributions
to you.

The work then becomes yours, and you can license it
however you wish.

Don't count on people breaking down your door to
contribute, though. Most people get a wiki project
is for sharing, and that the results remain shared.
To require explicitely reassigning copyright to you
so that the work is owned by you, is, well, not
very conducive to sharing. And some people may
view it as an attempt to get free labor to build
something that only you can benefit from

Especially if you intend to sell the rights
to make a derivative to someone outside the
wiki website at some point.

At first glance, I wouldn't spend any amount of my
time editing what ends up being your property.

But that's just me.

Out of curiosity, why won't ShareAlike work?

Greg London
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> Greetings.
>
> I wonder if I could pose a question on this forum? I am contemplating
> choosing a CC licence, but having some problem choosing exactly which
> one to apply - I will try to outline the problem...
>
> The 'work' involved is a collaborative group effort. As such, there may
> be one author, or there may be many collaborators. Although I want the
> work to be available to all, I want to retain control over the work
> itself - and this seems to present a conundrum. To try to explain, this
> is my current solution (though I don't like it):
>
> I act as publisher/distributor. Authors/contributors assign all rights
> to me on submission of the work, and assert that they have the authority
> to do so.
>
> I release the work, published on a Wiki, under a CC licence. The work is
> to be attributed by reference to the URL and date the document was
> copied.
>
> Now the problem: This is a living work. The world changes, so a
> Derivatives licence would be logical, BUT I do not want derivatives
> being used or distributed from anywhere other than from the original
> site - which implies a No Derivative Works licence. But for the work to
> have any relevance for me, it has to be published on a Wiki, which is
> constantly changing. Are these two situations incompatible? How can I
> allow derivative works "only on the condition that it is published on my
> Wiki"?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Phil.
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