On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Thomas Morton
<morton.thomas@googlemail.com> wrote:
> A license, as I mentioned, is not a contract - although it can (and
> regularly does) form part of a contract. The kinds of licenses we deal with,
> though, are not part of any contract. The point about a contract is that you
> enter into a direct, binding agreement with someone (or some entity) - one
> that carries a legal obligation.
>
> The free licenses we use don't do this; what they do is set out the
> licensing permissions for the media.

Thanks, Tom. There's a story here about the relationship (or the
developing understanding of the relationship) between copyright and
contract law.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100707/04163310101.shtml

The thing I don't understand is how a child could agree to any of
this. A CC license is an agreement proposed by the author. "I will
allow anyone to use this image so long as (for example) you credit me
with each use." A child is not in a position to propose anything, or
agree to anything, or to give away her rights or the rights of her
heirs. But this is what we're asking under-age people to do on a daily
basis, then when they say they have changed their minds - or that they
realize for the first time what their words implied -- we ignore them.

That's really out of order, morally, and probably legally, especially
when the images are personal and of no conceivable benefit to the
project. It means we're being unpleasant just because we can.

Sarah