Development of Creative Commons licenses

[<P.Tsiavos AT lse.ac.uk>]

Terry Hancock wrote:


>The person with the legal authority to sign a model release is not the
>creator of the work, but the person who is depicted. Thus it clearly
>can't be a standard part of the license to include the model release.

>I think this requires a process outside of the license itself (though
>something merely informative might appear in the license text and the
>"deed") to make it more clear that other, non-copyright legal issues
>might exist.

True... the more I think about it the more I agree that it is difficult to 
have any model release as part of the licences.

Nevertheless, there are two alternatives:
(a) Have as Terry suggests some sort of additional information on the CC site 
or introduce a step in the CC licence wizard to ensure that these non-CR 
related aspects have been considered by the licensor when CC-licensing a work.
(b) Include a separate standard model release as an additional CC legal tool 
that any licensor could use to ensure that such problems will not surface. I 
understand that some may object to yet another legal instrument added to an 
already complex CC system that was originally supposed to reduce complexity, 
but such a solution would at least inform people and give a ready-made tool 
for those that wish to use it.

Thank you
pRo


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