"CC0 is both a public domain dedication and a license. If the dedication
is effective, then it affects all the manifestations (on a website or a
CD/DVD-ROM) and copies. If it is not, then the permissive license affects
only the copies it is attached to."
The final sentence is incorrect, at
It's the former if you're using CC0. The work itself -- in whatever form
and whatever the number of copies -- is placed as nearly as possible in the
public domain. You could try to enforce a license on a particular copy, but
you can't enforce it as a matter of copyright and related rights (as
Hi everyone,
As regards CC0 and its use by the USG, you may find this comment we posted
previously of possible interest and relevance.
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/issues/149
Diane
Diane M. Peters
General Counsel, Creative Commons
Portland, Oregon
Copyright is not available for US government works as a matter of US
copyright law (section 105), but that does not mean those works may not be
restricted by copyright laws of other countries. Congress contemplated that
expressly.
“The prohibition on copyright protection for United States
To the extent helpful, we at CC put a lot of thought into how to best
define the notion of what constitutes a derivative work ("Adapted Material"
in CC 4.0 vernacular) when we last versioned. We expressly tied it to
copyright law. If a downstream licensee uses the work in a manner that
implicates
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