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["Yoav" <yoav AT creativecommons.org>]

Dear All,

First, greetings to all of you for joining our new mailing list, and
well done for everyone who helped in this project, especially
Christiane!

Rob raised the question of the CC licence and the paternity right.

Well, although at the moment we only have one version of the licence on
the website, this is just to simplify the process of the public
discussion on the licence. 
However, once this stage will go through, we'll have the same 11
versions of the licence (just like the US creative-commons licence).

Therefore, authors who will use the CC-UK licences will have the choice
of whether to retain or to waive their paternity right!

Hope this answers your question, Rob.

Best wishes

Yo'av Mazeh
Project Lead
iCommons-UK
Research Fellow
Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
University of Oxford

-----Original Message-----
From: cc-uk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:cc-uk-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Rob Myers
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:07 AM
To: cc-uk AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Cc-uk] welcome and discussion guidelines UK

On 26 Feb 2004, at 21:46, Christiane Asschenfeldt wrote:

> 3)  Please limit your suggestions and comments to things that will
help
> the licenses fit into UK law. The role of the discussion is not to 
> second-guess
> either Creative Commons' general policy or the philosophy reflected in

> the
> licenses.

(IANAL)

One thing I'm curious about is how the license fits with an author's 
"paternity rights" under the Copyright & Patents act. Does anything in 
the license affect my right to be identified as the author of the work, 
and/or should this be mentioned in the license?

So in the copyright an author might put:

Copyright (c) 2004 The Author
The right of The Author to be identified as the author of this work has 
been asserted in accordance with the Copyright & Patents Act 1988. (or 
whatever)

And the License might contain:

Nothing in this license affects the author's right to be identified as 
the author of the original work. (or whatever)

Or is this irrelevent?

Thanks.

- Rob.

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