You're right sorry they are using the lego shape. - lego is probably copyrighted? - in the CC image they could be generic wooden blocks put together? - How can we get explicit freedom to be as well recognised as the CC work? Competition for representing freedom and access to information in ways which are easy to identify ? Service to licence something as really free? Feels a bit strange/using shape licencing to indicate things which are free of restrictions feels odd.
The bit which bothers me is the work CC are doing on promoting the author's right to rescind the rights theyve given on their work after 35 years. This is apparently included in USA copyright law but not used much because it is complex and in my opinion because it is a nonsense, you can't unscramble an egg. But CC are working on a project to promote the creator's rights to rescind. To me this looks like it makes us all tenants in a 'commons'. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7163 Check out the FAQ. Ive copied the blog post below: Are you ready to "terminate"? CC's "termination of transfers" BETA This is a fun project I've been pushing inside CC which, thanks to endless work by our GC Mia Garlick and a Stanford student, Dana Powers, has now launched as a beta. The background is this: US copyright law gives creators an inalienable right to terminate any "transfer" or assignment of copyright after 35 years. The idea was to give the creator a second bite at the apple, an idea that goes back to the first US copyright law. The problem with the procedure is — surprise, surprise! — it is INSANELY complicated. It is almost as if — AS IF — it was designed not to be used. So Creative Commons decided it would take a crack at making the system easier. We've developed a tool that will help an author determine whether or when an assignment is terminable. And our idea is to work with legal aid clinics around the country to refer likely terminators for final termination (it is an irresistible word for us Californians). At this stage, the tool doesn't refer you. And you should not use or rely on anything that comes from this BETA. But we'd be very eager for people to play around with it and give us feed back on the tool. When we're really confident we've got all the logic right, and it's clear enough, and when we've lined up volunteer projects around the country to represent authors whose transfers are to be terminated, we'll launch the project. Why is this a Creative Commons project? We've seen CC from the start as a tool to help creators manage an insanely complicated copyright system. When we have this running, we'll offer any copyright owner who has reclaimed his or her rights the opportunity to distribute the work under a CC license. But that will be optional. Right now, we're just offering the tool to make it simpler for authors to get what the copyright system was intended to give them. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
