Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Danyl Strype <strypey AT riseup.net>]

Kia ora Sam

If the licenses are just about specifying what you want to happen and  
relying on people's honesty then it doesn't matter. In fact Richard  
Nivens echoed other legal opinions I've sought that the US CC licenses  
would be enforcable under NZ contract law ie by using your licensed  
material people implicitly agree to the terms of the license and if  
they breach them they have broken a contract. Although I suspect it  
will be a quicker, easier and cheaper to get the NZ courts to enforce  
your CC licenses if it's well-integrated with the specifics of NZ law,  
especially copyright law.

Anyway to me the main point of the localisation is to promote the  
understanding and use of CC licenses in Aotearoa, to take unique local  
concerns like those of tangata whenua into account and to provide a  
focus for the evolution of an open content community of artists,  
writers, programmers. In theory I could have proposed a local version  
of the Libre Society (http://www.libresociety.org/) instead but people  
in Aotearoa have already started picking up on CC. It is more flexible  
and like the free software/ open source licenses (GPL/ BSD etc) has  
teeth to prevent the commons we are trying to create from being  
claimed as property by the Intellectual Property enclosement.

For more thoughts on these issues have a look at:  
http://strypey.orcon.net.nz/wipeout.html

RnB
Strypes

Quoting Sam Stephens <sam AT postmoderncore.com>:

> Great to hear this good stuff happening...
>
> I'm interested though, why do we need specific NZ licenses? I've got my
> stuff under generic CC licenses right now? What additional protection
> would I gain under an NZ CC license?




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