[Clipart] CC Zero and Policies and DMCA

[jon at rejon.org]

Really? No one has any thoughts on this? I want to move on this before the
release. Its pretty important.

Jon

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:56 PM, jon at rejon.org <jon at rejon.org> wrote:

> Hi all, I think we should switch the site to use CC Zero for waiving the
> rights of uploaded cliparts. This is a tool by Creative Commons that gets
> public domain to work internationally. Its effectively what we are doing by
> releasing content into the public domain. This older tool is now deprecated.
> See the link at the bottom of all of our pages:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
>
>
> My recommendation is that we should switch to CC Zero for all contributions
> to the site:
>
>
> http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/results?license-class=zero&name=&actor_href=&work_title=&work_jurisdiction=-&confirm=confirm&understand=confirm&field1=continue&waiver-affirm=affirm
>
> The older tool we used from Creative Commons now covers works that are
> already in the public domain, and this is skewed towards countries that have
> a concept of the public domain, like the United States.
>
> http://creativecommons.org/choose/mark/
>
> So, I go back to CC Zero:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ which is now considered the CC0
> Public Dedication Tool.
>
> Lets switch before our next release.
>
> Also, part of my tasks for the next release is to put a policies page and
> DMCA up for OCAL. I tried to effect with the CC0 change and then some other
> things learned from the CC site. Ifyou have questions or concens, please
> bring them up. They are just drafts for the policies and DMCA pages.
>
> http://openclipart.org/policies
>
> http://openclipart.org/dmca
>
>
> Jon
>
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