On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Daniel Schwen lists@schwen.de wrote:
IANAL, but...
A related issue to the one Artur raises is that many legal systems have an absolute right to withdraw contractual offers if they have not already been mutually agreed upon. If you believe that a copyright license is a form of
Let's assume mutual agreement between the uploader and the commons project (i.e. Wikimedia)
[..] parties, even though they can't revoke it from any existing users. If a jurisdiction allows the license to be removed from future uses (all the
The existing user would thus be the commons project, which effectively has been granted the license to redistribute under the same license. So commons would act as a proxy between the original uploader and the reusers of the content, shielding the reusers from the whims of the original uploader. -- [[en:User:Dschwen]] [[de:Benutzer:Dschwen]] [[commons:User:Dschwen]]
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But wouldn't that make commons more vulnerable by the same argument?