Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

On 08/27/2012 09:02 AM, Paul Keller wrote:
> can we stop thinking in terms of liability/protection for a minute?
> clearly protection and reduction of liability are not the main
> consideration of most people using our licenses. they use the licenses

Legally speaking, people want to use the work without infringing 
copyright. :-)

> because they want to *enable other to use a specific work*. If that is
> my intention than it clearly helps that i am telling the potential user:
> 'you are free to use the work under these conditions' and and not some
> watered down version of that statement.

But you cannot make that un-watered-down statement without exposing 
yourself and downstream users to risk.

Paradoxically, removing the v1.0 guarantee made the licenses safer to 
use. Because licensors don't end up with liabilities as a result of the 
license if they get it wrong, and licensees aren't lulled into a false 
sense of security.

- Rob.