Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Andres Guadamuz <a.guadamuz AT ed.ac.uk>]

drew Roberts wrote:
> While I can understand this, can someone talk to the issue of a long train of 
> derivative works with the various generations being released under different 
> county specific versions of the "same" license?
>   
> all the best,
>
> drew
>   
Peter has answered this really well, but let me add that I believe long 
chains of derivatives as those that can be found in software are less 
common in creative works. Firstly, we must consider that there are a lot 
of No Derivatives licensed material out there. Secondly, in my short and 
limited experience looking at CC content and licences, I haven't 
encountered a lot of actual inter-jurisdiction licence incompatibility 
in existing licences. There have to be local differences, but these can 
actually help in local interpretation even if the user is employing a 
generic licence. It is my opinion that in many countries courts can look 
at the local version of the licence even if the user is using a generic 
version. It may shock some people to learn that not all judges in the 
world speak English.

Andres

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