Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

On 08/25/2012 12:34 PM, Paul Keller wrote:
> still i would really like to see an obligation on the licensor to
> make sure that third party rights holders approve the that the work
> is licensed under the license in question. Form em the licenses are
> about enabling re-use and i can only re-use something under the terms
> of the license if that license actually covers the entire work. i am
> really not concerned about who may sue whom in what what specific
> circumstances but about what the licenses enable.

v1 of the licenses had a guarantee that third party rights weren't being 
infringed.

See section 5 here:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/legalcode

It was taken out as it doesn't help. It adds liability to licensors 
without protecting licensees.

- Rob.