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  • From: "Greg London" <teloscorbin AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] CC-BY 2.0 photo usage inside a screensaver
  • Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:22:33 -0400

On 8/16/06, Melissa Cotano <melcotano AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greg London <teloscorbin AT gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 8/15/06, Melissa Cotano wrote:
>> I am creating a commercial screensaver that will be distributed
>> as a trial download that expires after 30 days.
>>
>> I would like to include in this screensaver some
>> CC-BY 2.0 images I found on Flickr, but before
>> doing so I would like to know:
>>
>> 1) whether the CC-BY 2.0 license allows such
>> usage (i.e. inclusion of CC-BY 2.0 works inside
>> a binary application expiring after a given time frame)
>
> CC-BY is almost like a Public Domain license,
> so you could take the work private, as long as you
> honor the attribution requirement.

I was concerned that the following sentence in section 4.a would prevent me
from using CC-BY 2.0 images inside a binary application expiring after a
period of time ("trialware"):
"You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly
digitally perform the Work with any technological measures that control
access or use of the Work in a manner inconsistent with the terms of this
License Agreement."

Ah, the hairs are splitting more finely than I thought.
I think your screen saver is a derivative, which would
fall under 4.b of the license, not 4.a

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode

And 4.b doesn't have any "technological protection measures" TPM clause.

I think the TPM clause should be removed from the attribution license,
but that's a different debate.

I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.

Greg




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