Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Heather Morrison <hgmorris AT sfu.ca>]

For the avoidance of doubt - what I mean to suggest is for works to enter the 
public domain after a particular period of time. This is not a suggestion of 
compromise on NC or ND, but rather an option that could apply to any 
CC-licensed work if the author desires. To avoid making things too 
complicated, perhaps this could be presented under an "other options" rather 
than on the license main screen.

If people did not use "Founders Copyright", this may not be out of lack of 
support for more limited copyright terms, but perhaps had to do with the term 
(is this a U.S. thing?)  or how it worked. If you had to choose Founders 
Copyright, or the other CC options, this may have meant just that the other 
options were more attractive, and would not tell us whether people would want 
both the other options and limited term. 

Micaela Gallerini makes an excellent point that authors might want to 
indicate a more limited copyright for all of their works rather than on a 
one-off basis. This may not be for the CC license, but perhaps for a related 
initiative such as open ID?

best,

Heather Morrison, MLIS
Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com