Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Diane Peters <diane AT creativecommons.org>]

Hi everyone,

We've updated the html on the staging server to reflect a few changes, none of which should be controversial:

• Updated the definition of Share to specifically reference importation. This is an exclusive right granted authors in many countries.  While we believe it ought already be construed as a permission granted under all six licenses, upon close inspection we've decided to make it unambiguous.
• Language improvements (miscellaneous) to the introductory section on Using Creative Commons licenses.
• In section 2, we separated and made independent the requirements that you retain a link to the license and retain a disclaimer of warranties, to avoid any argument that the requirements were interdependent.

Updated html:

http://staging.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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

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

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

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

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

With this, we will be formally closing the public comment period on 4.0 this Friday, November 1st, subject only to a final hard proof reading here at HQ.  We will be sharing our launch plans for 4.0 then.

best,

Diane