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Subject: Development of Creative Commons licenses

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  • From: jonathon <jblake AT eskimo.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [cc-licenses] Retracting masterial distributed under aCC 2.0 BY-NC-SA Licence.
  • Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:21:03 +0000

All:

I received a very polite, informal, "cease and desist" letter.

Basically, the sender wants all of my material that mentions a specific
website to be removed from public distribution. I've removed the
relevant material from my website.

One of the points they want, is assurance that the material will
not be redistributed by third parties.

My understanding is that they are perfectly willing to go to court over this. The judge will issue a ruling in their favour. That judgement will, in theory, trump the CC licence. I don't see any point going to court, knowing that the best case scenario for me, is that I lose. A good faith effort, merely reduces the amount of damages can be awarded against me.

All of the affected material was distributed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0
license.

I've gone thru that licence, and can't find a way to prevent further
distribution of the offending material. Have I missed something?

xan

jonathon




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