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The new licenses are here, the new
licenses are here!

The new licenses are here, the new
licenses are here! 05/25/2004 05:55 PM

I just updated the licenses on this blog to the new versions. Personally, I did it for the change in warranty provision. Check it out if you have any currently CC'd content, and update accordingly (it's just changing the URL path from 1.0 to 2.0 in your HTML) if you feel the changes are for the better as well.

RIM licenses to Motorola

RIM licenses to Motorola 04/21/2004 07:26 AM
Globe and Mail Apr 21 2004 11:41AM GMT

Licenses Revoked

Licenses Revoked 08/12/2004 12:59 PM
California Supreme Court voids all San Francisco same-sex marriages . Said the mayor overstepped his authority and that the city violated the state law.

City art and CC licenses

City art and CC licenses 01/27/2004 05:01 AM

Over at the blog "A Month Full Of Wednesdays" I noticed a post describing a recent Minneapolis call for music and video to play in stations and a recent call for artwork for Cleveland's public transit. The post mentions an idea to extend Cleveland art requests to include audio for use in stations and the transit authority's hold system.

The author mentions that Creative Commons licenses would be a good idea to level the playing field and allow the municipal companies to share the music with others on their site freely. We can't help but agree; these projects calling for artwork, music, and video for public transportation ask creators to contribute their work for the good of the community, much like our licenses do for the good of a greater culture.

New books under CC licenses

New books under CC licenses 07/07/2004 11:05 AM
The German Heise-Verlag, a publishing house specializing in books and magazines on the IT industry, has adopted the CC licensing model. Two books are currently being offered as free downloads under the CC licenses. The first book, Mix, Burn & RIP (http://www.mixburnrip.de) by Janko Roettgers, looks into the future of the recording industry. The second book, Freie Netze: Geschichte, Politik und Kultur offener WLAN-Netze by Armin Medosch (http://www.freifunk.net/wiki/FreieNetze), deals with the rise of free community wifi networks in Europe and elsewhere. The two books serve as a good example of how the Creative Commons model is gradually conquering non-English speaking countries. The German licenses were launched on June 10 and have since been extensively discussed in a variety of different forums, the most important of which was an academic workshop at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin on June 24 (a summary of the workshop’s discussion with future lines of research will be posted soon).

NEC Licenses USB On-The-Go for 3G Phones

NEC Licenses USB On-The-Go for 3G Phones 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
3G Jan 21 2004 8:34AM GMT

Chinese 3G licenses to be delayed

Chinese 3G licenses to be delayed 09/16/2004 05:23 PM
Telecoms.com Sep 16 2004 8:26PM GMT

Sony licenses VIA tech for PSP

Sony licenses VIA tech for PSP 08/31/2004 06:02 AM
Signs up S3TC

BBC to use Creative Commons licenses

BBC to use Creative Commons licenses 05/26/2004 06:16 PM
Digital Lifestyles is reporting that Larry Lessig has been named to a BBC advisory board and that the BBC's Creative Archive project (which aims to put the BBC's archives online for non-commercial re-use) will use Creative Commons licenses:

Professor Lawrence Lessig, chair of the Creative Commons project was clearly excited: "The announcement by the BBC of its intent to develop a Creative Archive has been the single most important event in getting people to understand the potential for digital creativity, and to see how such potential actually supports artists and artistic creativity." He went to enthuse "If the vision proves a reality, Britain will become a centre for digital creativity, and will drive the many markets – in broadband deployment and technology – that digital creativity will support."

Link (Thanks, Simon!)

German licenses launched

German licenses launched 06/11/2004 05:55 PM

We've recently flipped the switch on German Creative Commons licenses. Like the recent Brazil, Finland, and Japan licenses, in addition to the rewritten legal code that is now based on German law, the license interface is now available in German, as well as the licenses themselves.

Thanks goes out to the folks at both The Insitute for Information Law at the University of Karlsruhe and Institut für Rechtsfragen der Freien und Open Source Software (ifrOSS) for all their help along the way. This press release has more details about the launch.

Tender for 3G licenses slated for Aug 31

Tender for 3G licenses slated for Aug 31 08/27/2004 01:35 PM
Budapest Business Journal Aug 27 2004 6:02AM GMT

Announcing (and explaining) our new 2.0
licenses

Announcing (and explaining) our new 2.0
licenses 05/25/2004 06:04 PM

Last night, after many months of gathering and processing great feedback from all of you, we turned on version 2.0 of the main Creative Commons licenses. The 2.0 licenses are very similar to the 1.0 licenses -- in aim, in structure, and, by and large, in the text itself. We've included, however, a few key improvements, thanks to your input. A quick list of new features follows. All section numbers refer to the Attr ibution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. (Corresponding section numbers may vary across licenses.)

Attribution comes standard

Our web stats indicate that 97-98% of you choose Attribution, so we decided to drop Attribution as a choice from our license menu -- it's now standard. This reduces the number of licenses from eleven possible to six and makes the license selection user interface that much simpler. Important to remember: Attribution can always be disavowed upon licensor request, and pseudonymous and anonymous authorship are always options for a licensor, as before. If we see a huge uprising against the attribution-as-stock-feature, we'll certainly consider bringing it back as an option.

Link-back attribution clarified

Version 1.0 licenses did not carry any requirements to add hyperlinks as attribution. Under the 2.0 licenses, a licensor may require that licensees, to fulfill their attribution requirement, provide a link back to the licensor's work. Three conditions must be satisfied, though, before a licensee faces the linkback requirement: (1) linking back must be "reasonably practicable" -- you can't string me up for failing to link to a dead page, for example; (2) the licensor must specify a URL -- if you don't provide one specifically, i have no linkback obligation; (3) the link licensor provides must point to the copyright and licensing notice of the CC'd work -- in other words, licensors who abuse the linkback as an engine for traffic to unrelated sites don't enjoy linkback rights.

Synch rights clarified

The new licenses clarify when licensees may or may not synchronize musical CC'd works in timed-relation with a moving image. Basically, if a license allows derivatives, it allows the synching of music to video. If no derivs, no synching allowed. (See Sect ion 1b.)

Other music-specific rights clarified

The default rules for music-related copyrights can be particularly complicated, and the 2.0 licenses go to greater length to clarify how various CC license options affect music rights. In a nutshell: If you pick the "noncommercial" provision, you retain the right to collect royalties from BMI, ASCAP, or the equivalent for performance royalties; from Harry Fox or the equivalent for mechanicals; and from SoundExchange or the equivalent from webcasting compulsories. If you allow commercial re-use, you waive the exclusive rights to collect these various revenue streams. This is not a departure from the policy embodied in the 1.0 licenses -- these same results would be extrapolated by any reasonable interpretation. But 2.0 just makes it all clearer, and using the language of the profession. (See Sect ions 4e and 4f.) Note: This music-specific language marks the first time we've referred to any specific statutes in the generic CC licenses. This means that future iCommons licenses will have to do the same somewhat complicated mapping exercise for each respective jurisdiction.

Warranties? Up to licensors

Unlike the 1.0 licenses, the 2.0 licenses include language that makes clear that licensors' disclaim warranties of title, merchantibility, fitness, etc. As readers of this blog know by now, the decision to drop warranties as a standard feature of the licenses was a source of much organizational soul-searching and analytical thinking for us. Ultimately we were swayed by a two key factors: (1) Our peers, most notably, Karl Lenz, Dan Bricklin, and MIT. (2) The realization that licensors could sell warranties to risk-averse, high-exposure licensees interested in the due diligence paper trial, thereby creating nice CC business model. (See the Prelinger Archive for a great example of this free/fee, as-is/warranty approach.) You can find extensive discussion of this issue in previous posts on this blog. (See Sect ion 5.)

Share Alike Across Borders

Version 2.0 licenses that feature the Share Alike requirement now clarify that derivatives may be re-published under one of three types of licenses: (1) the exact same license as the original work; (2) a later version of the same license as the original work; (3) an iCommons license that contains the same license elements as the original work (e.g. BY-SA-NC, as defined in Sect ion 1 of each license). The version 1.0 licenses required that derivative be published under the exact same license only. Our tweak means much better compatibility across future jurisdiction-specific licenses and going forward across versions. Less forking, more fun. (See Sect ion 4b.)

Otherwise, Share Alike Means Share Alike

After much very strong and eloquent argument from our readers and supporters, and notwithstanding the increased flexibility of Share Alike in the iCommons context, we decided not to make the BY-NC-SA and plain BY-SA licenses compatible. If you take a work under BY-NC-SA 2.0 and make something new from it, for example, you can re-publish under BY-NC-SA Japan, or BY-NC-SA 7.4 (when that comes), but you cannot republish it under any other license or combine it with BY-SA content. Similarly, a derivative made from a work under BY-SA 2.0 may be published only under BY-SA 2.0, BY-SA (iCommons license), or BY-SA 9.1, but it can't be mixed with BY-NC-SA or other noncommercial content and republished.

Nifty new Some Rights Reserved button

Check out the button at the bottom of this page. Wouldn't that look good on your site? Time for an upgrade, cosmetic as well as legal?

Japanese iCommons licenses available
now!

Japanese iCommons licenses available
now! 03/06/2004 01:53 AM

I am very happy to announce that our Japanese-law and -language licenses are now available for use from our site. Just select "Jurisdiction: Japan" when choosing a license, and the site will point you to the right document. For those with browsers set to English, the Commons Deed will appear in English. For those with broswers set to Japanese, in Japanese. And the u nderlying legal code is in Japanese.

This is a major milestone for Creative Commons, and I'd like to extend a special thank you to GLOCOM for driving iCommons Japan, to Yuko Noguchi and Emi Wakatsuki for their extraordinary efforts, and to Machina for her keen insights at various points in the drafting process.

IBM licenses Rambus XDR interface

IBM licenses Rambus XDR interface 06/17/2005 04:25 PM
The Register Jun 17 2005 11:25AM GMT

3G licenses to be issued next year

3G licenses to be issued next year 09/17/2004 09:52 AM
Business World Sep 17 2004 1:53PM GMT

RIM licenses technology to Motorola

RIM licenses technology to Motorola 04/21/2004 08:59 AM
ZDNet Apr 21 2004 12:57PM GMT

More Than 1,000 Gay Couples Seek
Licenses (AP)

More Than 1,000 Gay Couples Seek
Licenses (AP) 05/18/2004 11:43 AM
AP - More than 1,000 gay couples sought applications for marriage licenses on the first day Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex couples to legally wed, a survey of the largest cities and towns in the state by The Associated Press showed.

AOL Licenses Viewpoint Ad Technology

AOL Licenses Viewpoint Ad Technology 10/30/2003 01:40 PM

Kernel Modules that Lie About Their
Licenses

Kernel Modules that Lie About Their
Licenses 04/27/2004 11:54 AM

PatenTuX, recognition of car licenses

PatenTuX, recognition of car licenses 10/30/2003 04:56 PM
File release

Romania to auction four 3G licenses

Romania to auction four 3G licenses 07/14/2004 03:22 PM
InvestRomania Jul 14 2004 5:42PM GMT

how MT's new licenses work for Ari

how MT's new licenses work for Ari 05/18/2004 07:22 PM
the new license lets consultants do a lot of new services and installations for pay

New round of bidding for 3G licenses

New round of bidding for 3G licenses 02/07/2005 01:59 AM
Malaysiakini Feb 7 2005 6:43AM GMT

Motorola Licenses RIM Technology

Motorola Licenses RIM Technology 04/21/2004 12:51 PM
Under a new licensing pact, Motorola devices can connect to RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

3G wireless licenses likely in 2006

3G wireless licenses likely in 2006 12/30/2004 11:42 PM
CNET News.com Dec 31 2004 4:13AM GMT

Samsung licenses PowerVR MBX

Samsung licenses PowerVR MBX 01/29/2004 09:58 AM
Imagination's deal with ARM pays off

Atheros licenses technology from ARM

Atheros licenses technology from ARM 07/06/2004 05:03 PM
The move is meant to shorten the time it takes to get products to market.

Uplinkearth Licenses CM4all Builder

Uplinkearth Licenses CM4all Builder 06/15/2004 01:37 PM
theWHIR Jun 15 2004 5:23PM GMT

software licenses from a developer
standpoint

software licenses from a developer
standpoint 06/18/2004 11:48 PM
comparing table one and table two on this page is very interesting

Nokia licenses patents from RIM rival

Nokia licenses patents from RIM rival 06/14/2004 04:37 PM
The patents are at the heart of an infringement case against the maker of the popular BlackBerry device.

Creative Commons ships 2.0 licenses

Creative Commons ships 2.0 licenses 05/26/2004 04:34 AM
The new Creative Commons licenses are out -- whaoo! The new licenses clarify and refine the initial terms of the 1.0 licenses, and CC has posted good, clear commentary explaining the changes.

Unlike the 1.0 licenses, the 2.0 licenses include language that makes clear that licensors' disclaim warranties of title, merchantibility, fitness, etc. As readers of this blog know by now, the decision to drop warranties as a standard feature of the licenses was a source of much organizational soul-searching and analytical thinking for us. Ultimately we were swayed by a two key factors: (1) Our peers, most notably, Karl Lenz, Dan Bricklin, and MIT. (2) The realization that licensors could sell warranties to risk-averse, high-exposure licensees interested in the due diligence paper trial, thereby creating nice CC business model. (See the Prelinger Archive for a great example of this free/fee, as-is/warranty approach.) You can find extensive discussion of this issue in previous posts on this blog. (See Section 5.)

Link (Thanks, A. S. Bradbury!)

Lycoris licenses Bitstream fonts

Lycoris licenses Bitstream fonts 06/10/2004 07:26 PM
The Linux startup adds TrueType, Opentype and PostScript font capability to its version of the desktop operating system.

Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9

Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 04/27/2004 10:54 PM

Karelia licenses Watson, will end
development on Oct. 5

Karelia licenses Watson, will end
development on Oct. 5 06/28/2004 02:52 PM
Karelia Software announced on Monday that it has licensed the technology in its Web utility Watson to an undisclosed "large company." Karelia will continue to support and maintain the application until Oct. 5, at which time it expects the technology's new owner to announce a cross-platform product to which existing Watson users can migrate. Watson will reach the end of its life cycle on that date, and Karelia expects that some of its modules will cease to function afterward because the Web sites they interact with change frequently. Karelia expects such modules as eBay Watcher, Movies, Package Tracker and Phone Listings "will likely stop functioning in the near- to mid-term," while such modules as Epicurious, PriceGrabber, Amazon.com and VersionTracker "may indeed function for a long time (because their Web site is fairly stable or we are using XML Web Services)." The company also notes that, after Oct. 5, it "will be happy to provide Watson users with other forms of support (diagnosing crashes and conflicts, helping with lost registration codes, and so forth)."

Kerry: No licenses for illegal
immigrants

Kerry: No licenses for illegal
immigrants 07/01/2004 01:45 PM

Microsoft Licenses Tech IP to Startups

Microsoft Licenses Tech IP to Startups 04/11/2005 01:50 PM
Microsoft said on Monday it has signed intellectual property licensing agreements with a number of companies that will use technology developed by Microsoft Research, as well as Windows fonts and Windows Connect Now. But Jupiter analyst Joe Wilcox notes that one of the startups was founded by Microsoft employees.

Open source licenses slashed

Open source licenses slashed 04/07/2005 12:17 PM
Computer Weekly Apr 7 2005 2:56PM GMT

American Bar Association Licenses Essays

American Bar Association Licenses Essays 03/19/2005 03:27 AM

It recently has come to our attention and that the American Bar Association has Creative Commons licensed essays on the USA PATRIOT provisions.

What better a compliment than to have this prestigious association of lawyers use Creative Commons licenses for their content. We're truly honored.

Bulgaria Auctions off UMTS- Licenses

Bulgaria Auctions off UMTS- Licenses 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
Sofia News Agency Jan 3 2005 5:49PM GMT
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