[Commons-l] Fwd: [cc-licenses] CC0 beta/discussion draft launch

[geni]

On 16/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> So is it useful for us to add CC0 as a licence option equivalent to
> our "public domain or equivalent" (where, if public domain release is
> not possible, the work is licenced for use by anyone for any purpose)?

No since we have zero interest in promoting CC branding of free
material. Fealing with dozens of different legal systems and the
various loopholes and exceptions within them is quite complex enough
without someone attempting a re-branding exercise in the middle of it.
We do not need a further source of confusion ("you said PD but it says
CC" here is really really not needed).

"CC0[http://creativecommons.org/projects/cczero] is a Creative Commons
project designed to promote and protect the public domain by 1) enabling
authors to easily waive their copyrights in particular works and to
communicate that waiver to others, "

Our templates already do a better job of that.

"and 2) providing a means by which
any person can assert that there are no copyrights in a particular work,
in a way that allows others to judge the reliability of that assertion."

I see gameing.


All in all our current systems do everything CC-0 does but better.
-- 
geni