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Before we get started, Chris and I need to figure out what kind of Creative Commons License we want to use for this project. We also need to figure out what kinds of Terms and Conditions to ask contributors and participants to sign up to.

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Here’s the page that describes the six types of cc licenses:
Creative Commons Licenses.


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At the moment I tend to think we should use the fifth - Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa). However, this might be too restrictive. Also, it could mean we are allowing people to use our work for non-commercial purposes, whereas we might want to use the project for, eventually, commercial purposes.


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But just thinking about the above leads to all manner of questions. For instance, we could take the fact that the project is AC funded to mean that we should make this project entirely non-commercial from start to finish. In other words, any novel or mobile phone content etc etc spin-off, would be given away for free, provided we could raise the finance to create the spin-off in the first place. It might be a useful or interesting principle to adopt for the entire project. But it’s also quite a big decision.


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However, if we decide that we would rather leave the door open for commercial development of ‘Flight Paths’, then we should look at using an users agreement like the one Penguin created for the wiki-novel:
Terms and Conditions.
It would be easy to adapt this for Flight Paths, and it would cover us for commercial use of contributions.


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We need to decide these things before we start the project. But it is interesting stuff.

Posted by Kate on 7 December, 2007
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Chris on paragraph 3:

Yes, I agree that that would be the best CC license…

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21 October, 2007 11:53 am
Chris on paragraph 4:

Although one of the intentions of creative commons licenses is to open up useage of material, this might actually be a very restrictive thing to do for this project. It might be much easier to use a Penguin-type agreement like the one you have linked to, and allow a wider range of possible future uses of the texts and media. Of course this might put some people off, but having to get agreement from dozens of people in order to reuse material later would be horrendous.

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21 October, 2007 11:54 am
Chris on paragraph 5:

I like the relative simplicity of this a lot, though I couldn’t see any mention of crediting original authors in any subsequent uses of their work, which is something I would like to include.

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21 October, 2007 11:55 am
Kate on paragraph 5:

Okay, What I’ll do now is adapt the Penguin wiki-novel Terms & Conditions, then I’ll run it by you. We’ll have to run it by the Arts Council as well, to see what they think. They might want to insist on a CC license. It will be interesting to maintain this as a topic for discussion once people start looking at the site.

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26 October, 2007 11:55 am
Kate on paragraph 5:

Chris - The more I think about this the more I think we need both a CC License and T&Cs. I still think we should go for license 5 by-nc-sa. I’m also rewriting the T&C doc now. More soon. Kate

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3 November, 2007 11:56 am
Chris on paragraph 5:

I’m not sure I’ve seen both cc license and t&c together before. We would effectively be saying: we are free to use this material commercially, you are free to use it in any non-commercial way. Which may be fine.

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5 November, 2007 11:56 am
Kate on paragraph 6:

At the moment, Chris and I are thinking about using both a CC License and Terms & Conditions, both of which will shortly be up on the site. Let us know what you think of this - a little weird maybe?

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6 November, 2007 11:56 am
Kate on paragraph 6:

This part of the story is not finished yet. We’ve got a lawyer looking at the terms & conditions for us; she says they need substantial rewriting. We’ll put up the new version as soon as we have it.

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26 November, 2007 11:57 am
Chris on paragraph 6:

The new version is now up at http://www.flightpaths.net/blog/index.php/terms-and-conditions/.

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5 December, 2007 3:06 pm

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