CC license logos/buttons

John J. McDonough wb8rcr at arrl.net
Fri Aug 7 13:32:03 UTC 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Schneider" <kgs at esilibrary.com>
To: "For participants of the Documentation Project" 
<fedora-docs-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: CC license logos/buttons


>> "Creative Commons License Buttons: The Creative Commons buttons that
>> describe a key term of our license, such as BY, NC, ND, SA, Sampling,
>> Sampling Plus and Noncommercial Sampling Plus may only be used in the
>> context of pointing to a Creative Commons license on the Creative
>> Commons server that includes that license term or to otherwise
>> describe the Creative Commons license, that includes that license term
>> and that applies to a particular work."
>>
>>
>> So, that particular artwork may only be used to drive traffic to their 
>> site.
>> Sounds awfully Microsoft-y to me.
>>
>
> (Emerging from lurkdom) I was surprised by this message and wonder if
> Creative Commons as a project really wants that as an outcome. They
> may not have factored in circumstances that would make that clause
> difficult to implement.
>

If an organization is all about licensing, it must be just chock full of 
lawyers.  I suspect that you are right, they did some obvious lawyer-speak 
without really thinking through the appearances.

--McD




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