Re: Creative Commons CC0

2009-03-22 Thread Ben Finney
"Joe Smith" writes: > The legal code is long and complex, because it can be. The whole point > of the Creative Commons > Licenses is that the license text is not included with the work, but > instead just the license URL is included. I'd hardly call that “the whole point” of the licenses; if any

Re: Short copyright notice in script file

2009-03-22 Thread Joe Smith
"Ken Arromdee" wrote in message news:20090322071908.98b07b...@violet.rahul.net... First sale in the US only applies if the product was made in the US. Where on Earth did you hear or read that? I've never head such a thing. http://supreme.justia.com/us/523/135/case.html Read carefully the s

Re: Creative Commons CC0

2009-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Joe Smith wrote: > > Thus the CC0 licence takes only one line to apply to a work. > > #makes this work avilable under CC0 > (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) The CC folks prefer that you use this actually: To the extent possible under law, has

Re: Creative Commons CC0

2009-03-22 Thread Joe Smith
Ben Finney wrote Yes. If anything, the length of verbiage that Creative Commons feels necessary to effectively place a work in the public domain, under the current copyright regime, only supports the idea that it's significantly *more* complicated than working with copyright and using an appropr

Re: Short copyright notice in script file

2009-03-22 Thread Ken Arromdee
>> First sale in the US only applies if the product was made in the US. >Where on Earth did you hear or read that? I've never head such a thing. http://supreme.justia.com/us/523/135/case.html Read carefully the sections describing 602(a), particularly page 148. # copies that are not subject to