Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>]

drew Roberts skrev:
> So again I ask, would it not be clearer to change the license from "the work" 
> to "this instance of the work and all instances made or derived from it."

Perhaps "licensed copy"? A quick check of a few Swedish standard form 
contracts, dealing with copyright matters, reveals that the term "work" 
is only used when all economic rights to a works are transferred from 
the author to for example a publisher. The term "licensed copy" is used 
when the license only applies to the a specific copy of a work.

> Plus, surely I can sell you a license without providing you with the work 
> itself at all?

Yes of course. Collecting societies does this all the time. If I would 
own a restaurant I would have to pay a collecting society for playing 
music to entertain my guests and that license wouldn't be included with 
any of the CD's that I bought.

/Peter Brink