Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Christopher Covington <cov AT vt.edu>]

For whatever it's worth, I think semiconductor mask rights are so
similar to copyright that they should be given the same
treatment--licensed rather than waived. Design patents should probably
be treated similarly to traditional patents. I for one am in favor of an
explicit patent grant. I don't have much more than a piecemeal
understanding of all the issues and a gut feeling to motivate these
positions, however.

Regards,
Christopher

On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 10:15 -0700, Sarah Pearson wrote:
> Thanks very much for this concrete proposal, Christopher. We have
> added it to the 4.0 wiki. 
> 
> Defining the scope of the license is the most challenging aspect of
> the 4.0 drafting process. We continue to struggle with the tension
> between wanting the license to be as comprehensive as possible to give
> licensees all of the rights they need to truly exercise the rights
> granted, and on the other hand, preventing it from being so broad it
> includes rights that are not likely to be held by a single licensor. 
> 
> Note there is also a second question as to whether these rights beyond
> copyright should be licensed and subject to all of the license
> conditions, or whether they should simply be waived or not asserted by
> the licensor (and if so, which rights should fall into which
> category). The initial draft of 4.0 includes a waiver of "ancillary
> rights" to the extent possible and necessary for the licensee to
> exercise the rights granted under the license. We are very curious to
> hear thoughts on whether this dual approach is practical and useful. 
> 
> All of these issues are extremely important for receiving community
> feedback. Any input would be much appreciated.
> 
> best,
> Sarah 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Christopher Covington <cov AT vt.edu>
> wrote:
>         With the expansion of rights licensed expanding to include
>         database
>         rights, I'd like to propose also adding other sui generis
>         rights,
>         specifically semiconductor mask rights and design rights.
>         These were
>         both recently added to a modified version of the Apache
>         license to come
>         up with the Solderpad Open License [1].
>         
>         1. http://solderpad.org/licenses/SHL-0.51/
>         
>         Regards,
>         Christopher
>         
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