Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>]

Erik Sjölund wrote:
> Could I require that the attribution text should be placed under each
> of the tunes he creates or could I only require that the attribution
> text is placed at one place in the book if he publish a collection of
> these tunes?

The current (2.5) licesnse have the following text in their attribution 
section:

"Such credit may be implemented in any reasonable manner; provided, 
however, that in the case of a Derivative Work or Collective Work, at a 
minimum such credit will appear where any other comparable authorship 
credit appears and in a manner at least as prominent as such other 
comparable authorship credit."

Having a credits section at the start of a book of sheet music strikes 
me as a "reasonable manner" of giving credit to the authors and 
composers.  Thus, I don't think that this lets you require that the 
attributions in the derivative works be placed on each individual tune. 
 If he puts the name of any of the other tunes' authors/composers with 
the individual tunes, however, he'll have to place your name, etc. with 
your individual tunes.

ObDisclaimer: This isn't legal advice.

James