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[Nick Poole <nick AT mda.org.uk>]

Dear All,

Please regard this as a tentative toe in the water for a new subscriber to 
the list!

I have been following the development of the CC licensing framework with 
interest 
for some time, and am very pleased to see the development of a UK-specific 
strain. I 
have also been looking through the archive of previous postings.

My organisation, the mda (http://www.mda.org.uk) is a public-sector charity 
working 
with the UK museums community. Because we have a 'public good' purpose, and 
one of our core functions is the publication and dissemination of 
information, we 
have already started to make use of the 'generic' CC licenses, specifically 
the 
Attribution-Noncommercial-Derivs 2.0 license.

I have two questions, which Id like to offer to the list for discussion: 

1. Are the licenses actually legally binding on anyone, or would we need to 
wait for 
UK case law to demonstrate their that they are? I know that the principle is 
to 
release, rather than reserve, some rights, but what of those rights which are 
still 
reserved? 

2. When the UK-specific variant becomes available, should we replace our 
existing 
non-specific licenses with UK ones? Would this make them any more or less 
applicable, for example if we were to discover someone re-selling our 
copyright 
content on a commercial basis?

Apologies if these are typical newbie questions, but I'd be very interested 
in your 
thoughts. 

Yours sincerely,

Nick Poole



Nick Poole
Director
Mda

The Spectrum Building
The Michael Young Centre
Purbeck Road
Cambridge
CB2 2PD

Telephone: 01223 415 760
Email: nick AT mda.org.uk
Website: http://www.mda.org.uk