<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Luis Villa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luis@lu.is" target="_blank">luis@lu.is</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="im">On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:29 AM, David Woolley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:forums@david-woolley.me.uk" target="_blank">forums@david-woolley.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>On 21/10/13 07:39, Maxthon Chan wrote:<br>
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There is a project, Creative Commons, that focuses on providing free<br>
license for art, music and works alike. They tackled the localisation<br>
issue well, by providing localised licenses that is interchangeable with<br>
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No they don't. All the licences seem to be in English.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Max is correct; you are wrong. Deeds are translated in some cases, but licenses also undergo what CC calls "porting": a combination of translation and adaptation to local jurisdictions. You can see this, even if you're only an English-speaker, by noting that CC has several different licenses in English:</div>
<div><br></div><div>e.g., CC BY "England and Wales": <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/legalcode" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/legalcode</a></div><div>CC BY United States: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/legalcode" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/legalcode</a></div>
<div>CC BY Scotland: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/legalcode" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/legalcode</a></div><div><br></div><div>Max, it is important to know that CC *now believes they got this wrong*, and will stop porting licenses starting in 4.0, focusing instead on translations. Some discussion of that here: <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2013-September/007451.html" target="_blank">http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2013-September/007451.html</a></div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To nitpick slightly, we're not certain that porting will stop entirely--but we're hoping that it will be unnecessary. (To that end, a lot of effort was spent during the drafting process consulting CC's international affiliates to make sure the licenses will be valid and effective under other national laws. If something arises that could not have been resolved by this consultation, CC may approve ports--but nothing like the approach for the 3.0 suite, where porting to other jurisdictions was expected.)<br>
<br></div><div>And yes--going forward CC will be supporting official translations--which comes with its own set of complications, but mainly around their creation rather than their reuse.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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each other, even in the copyleft variants.</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Do not take for granted that the licenses (before 4.0) are interchangeable. For example, some (but not all!) of the EU Share Alike licenses in 3.0 deal with database rights.</div>
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<br></div><div>-Kat<br><br>--<br>Kat Walsh, Counsel, Creative Commons<br>IM/IRC/@/etc: mindspillage * phone: please email first<br>Help us support the commons: <a href="https://creativecommons.net/donate/">https://creativecommons.net/donate/</a><br>
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