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[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 18 Nov 2004, at 18:38, Prodromos Tsiavos wrote:

> -The BBC CA licence will contain a provision stipulating that in the 
> case of
> having material under a CC-UK licence mixed with BBC CA material the 
> later
> licence will prevail.

Can the CA license be made extremely upgradeable, to the point where an 
announcement that "the CA licenses have been replaced by V6.0 of the 
CC-UK licenses" will be possible?

> -Provide two versions of the CC-UK licence, one allowing mixing with 
> the CA
> licences (and hence allowing the mixed material to be released under a 
> BBC CA
> licence) and another one not, so that the end-user will have the 
> opportunity to
> make the choice.

This would be good because it gives people a choice, but bad because it 
gives too many incompatible options.

Rather than having two CC-UK licenses, would it be possible for the CC 
license-choosing page to offer *dual* licensing (CC-UK and, if the user 
agrees, CC-CA)? This would be a social solution rather than a legal 
solution, but if presented well it could be very effective:

"Would you like your work to be dual-licensed CC-CA? This will allow 
people to use your work with hundreds of hours of BBC TV and Radio 
material from the Creative Archive. [x]
(click here for more details)"

Alternatively, since the CA is still very much a pilot project, can the 
problem of interoperability be deferred, like the problem of Integrity? 
I know this is not the ideal solution now, but if the CA license has 
been made more liberal then it's perhaps less of a problem.

- Rob.