Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Anthony <osm AT inbox.org>]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:39 AM, sebastian nielsen
<nielsen.sebastian AT gmail.com> wrote:
> A problem with anonymous/psedonymous works is that the license grant
> cannot be verified by a third party. In the case of where the
> copyright owner is identified, a third party can contact the owner to
> ask "did you really release your work under CC 3.0?" for example.

This is a good point.  But it's somewhat oversimplified.  In many
cases you *can* contact an anonymous/pseudonymous author to ask
questions.  And in many cases you *can't* contact a named author to
ask questions.

Another point is that many times the author of a work is anonymous or
pseudonymous, but the publisher or another party is not (and the
publisher/other-party knows the identity of the true author).