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["Andres Guadamuz" <a.guadamuz AT ed.ac.uk>]

You can modify the licences as Creative Commons does not assert copyright 
over the text of the licences. However, the use of the logos and the name 
"Creative Commons" is restricted under CC's trade mark policy, which can be 
found in any legal code:

"Except for the limited purpose of indicating to the public that the Work is 
licensed under the Creative Commons Public Licence, neither party will use 
the trademark "Creative Commons" or any related trademark or logo of 
Creative Commons without the prior written consent of Creative Commons. Any 
permitted use will be in compliance with Creative Commons' then-current 
trademark usage guidelines, as may be published on its website or otherwise 
made available upon request from time to time."

Here is a link to the policy page:

http://creativecommons.org/policies

Andres

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Andres Guadamuz
AHRC Research Centre for Studies in
Intellectual Property and Technology Law
Old College, South Bridge
Edinburgh EH8 9YL

Tel: 44 (0)131 6509699
Fax: 44 (0)131 6506317
a.guadamuz AT ed.ac.uk
http://technollama.blogspot.com/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rob AT robmyers.org>
To: <cc-uk AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Cc-uk] Ganfyd live with medical variant of CreativeCommons 
Licence


> Quoting Stuart Yeates <stuart.yeates AT oucs.ox.ac.uk>:
>
> > [I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice]
> >
> > rob AT robmyers.org wrote:
> > > It's an interesting idea to limit editing to representatives of a 
> > > particular
> > > professional domain. In many ways the GPL does this implicitly for Free
> > > Software, and the fact that software must run eliminates incompetent
> > > contributions. I assume there are medical registries you can check to 
> > > ensure
> > > that contributors are who they say they are.
> >
> > GPL software is released that doesn't compile.
>
> This is an objective measure of the quality of the code, and it 
> immediately
> prevents the program from being compiled and used "in production" on a
> computer
> system. For medical information, harm might not be immediately obvious
> and might
> only become obvious when the product is "in production", and it may be put 
> "in
> production" in uses outside a medical institution where it cannot be
> competently evaluated.
>
> I appreciate that nuclear reactor software released under the GPL that has 
> a
> slow memory leak which will cause a meltdown after two years would be
> equivalent. But it's different case to a crank editing BY-SA medical
> documentation and circulating it in the general community. That would be 
> more
> like someone adding malicious code
>
> We then get on to how you identify cranks and whether uses of cultural or
> technical works differ from uses of software.
>
> > Nightly builds and other forms of snapshot frequently don't compile.
> > This doesn't reflect at all negatively on the competency of those
> > involved, it's merely a software engineering strategy to ensure that
> > issues caused by people independently working on the same code are
> > found and fixed rapidly.
>
> Certainly. And disallowing intelligent but non-professional people from
> editing
> work does reduce the amount of review and contribution. I am sure that a
> project to produce medical information can competently review 
> contributions.
> And a crank  could redistribute misleading derivatives anyway. So where's 
> the
> harm in adopting a Wikipedia "self healing" model over a
> medical-practitioners-only license? It still feels like medical 
> information is
> more important. Maybe.
>
> This is a very interesting case study. :-)
>
> > I believe that whether or not you can produce a variant of the
> > licence depends on the copyright licence under which the licence
> > text is released.
>
> I have seen variant CC licences before. I was under the impression that
> you are
> allowed to make them, but a quick search of CC's web site doesn't show
> anything.
>
> - Rob.
>
>
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