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More motivation to have explanation text in the website versions of core license.

 

Article by TechCrunch:  500px’s Terms Of Service Are Kind Of Awesome

 

😃,

 

Marino Hernandez
(just a founder of Marketply)
203-429-4205

 

On October 24, 2013 at 11:00 AM Marketply <contact AT marketply.org> wrote:

It seems too disruptive in section 2 to jump from A to B at

 

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grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:

1. reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part, including for commercial purposes,
2. produce but not Share Adapted Material.

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People will go "what?"  *headscratch*

 

We could just add a clarifying explanation immediately after B, because it'll obviously trigger questions. 

 

Heck, a great approach to the entire license would be to do like the 500px does by adding explanations that aren't legally binding but clarify things in everyday language.

 

It takes more work but the outcomes would be worth it: less uncertainty, less wild misinterpretations.

 

Too many legalese forces people to jump through mental hoops, trying to jigsaw puzzle an interpretation out of various disjointed parts throughout the document. 

 

Creative Commons already takes the step of making a human readable digest version. We could go an extra step to a full-blown human readable document. People will love the thoughtful effort and it's newsworthy for attracting attention and it sets a good precedent for other licenses and no one's eyes glaze over reading it. 

 

Little things like this that can bring in a lot more people.

 

Marino Hernandez
(just a founder of Marketply)
203-429-4205

 

On October 23, 2013 at 7:32 PM Sarah Pearson <sarah AT creativecommons.org> wrote:

As promised, we have updated the BY-ND and BY-NC-ND files on the staging server to reflect the change proposed on this thread last week.

The changes are noted in strike-through and color so you can see how they have changed from the prior version.

The edits are in the following parts of the licenses:

- Adapted Material definition

- Section 2(a)(1)

- Section 3(a)(1)

- Section 4(a)

http://staging.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode
http://staging.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

best,

Sarah