Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org>]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:08:39 -0400 Kent Mewhort wrote:

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> Moral rights
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[...]
> I would suggest leaving moral rights altogether intact.

I instead think that the license should do everything it can in order
to prevent moral rights from obstructing the exercise of the granted
rights.

[...]
> Attribution
> ------------
> 
> 3. The scope of "any reasonable manner" seems a bit too broad,
> especially given the importance and multi-faceted purpose of
> attribution. I liked the old "at least as prominent as" provision,
> though I can see how this can cause problems in some contexts.

Please let's not suggest the reintroduction of one of few issues of
CC-v3.0 that have been fixed in CC-v4.0draft1 !
For more details, please see:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2012-January/006604.html

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> Choice of Law
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> 
> 5. There hasn't been much discussion on this, but I think deserves
> careful consideration in light of the move towards
> internationalization.  Given the different laws on fair dealing,
> copyright terms, and other aspects of copyright law, it creates a lot of
> uncertainty to simply leave choice of law to local conflict of law
> rules.  I think something analogous to the U.K. government license could
> work well to tighten up certainty: "This licence is governed by the laws
> of the jurisdiction in which the Information Provider has its principal
> place of business, unless otherwise specified by the Information Provider. "

I instead think that it's better if the local conflict of law rules are
not overridden...


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