Creative Commons licenses deal with far more than just redistribution of works.
Linking is one thing, embedding is quite another. The content creator has the absolute right to deny people permission to embed the work files in their own websites etc. If you publically display the work, you need to check whether you have the rights to do so. Under most CC licenses you have the right to do so as long as it is not for profit, as long as you give proper attribution to the author, and as long as you make the terms of the license clear. There are websites that do none of those things. They clearly ignore the rights of the creator. I do not need a lawyer to spot some very clear violations, though there are grey areas too. There are some people who use CC licenses who dont follow the terms properly either and probably invalidate their own license before theyve even started. Syndicating content should not imply that the creator has given up any of their rights. Syndication does pose a technical issue in terms of sticking to the requirement to include the CC license or URI wherever the work is shown/with every copy of the work. The easiest way round it is if people include cc info in the video itself, because even though CC RSS feed thing exists, not enough aggregators etc make use of it. Maybe Im wrong, Im always ready to be persuaded otherwise, but if you read the full versions of any CC license it surely isnt as limited as you suggest? Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Lucas Gonze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/5/05, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Its the attribution and no-commercial-use clauses in cc licenses that > > most leechy sites are technically falling foul of. > > None of these sites that I am aware of are doing redistribution, just > linking or embedding, so the cc license doesn't apply. > > There are never licensing requirements for linking. Otherwise there > would be no web. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
