Good News for the Creative Commonwealth - Open Source Licences upheld.

Wednesday, August 13. 2008

Good News for the Creative Commonwealth - Open Source Licences upheld.

From Larry Lessig's Blog, good news for the Creative Commons type of licences - the US "IP Court" has upheld open source copyright licences:

In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the license disappears, meaning you're simply a copyright infringer. This is the theory of the GPL and all CC licenses. Put precisely, whether or not they are also contracts, they are copyright licenses which expire if you fail to abide by the terms of the license.

So, for those who scrape this blog and on-sell for profit..... you are now a copyright infringer and...we can sue!

Posted by Alan Patrick in Open Source at 23:04 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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