[ossig] Creative Commons v3.0

[Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz]

Taken from: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7249

Excerpt:
The latest version of the Creative Commons licenses — Version 3.0 — are
now available (http://creativecommons.org/license/) . To briefly recap
what is different in this version of the licenses:

Separating the “generic” from the US license

As part of Version 3.0, we have spun off the “generic” license to be the
CC US license and created a new generic license, now known as the
“unported” license. For more information about this change, see this
more detailed explanation.

Harmonizing the treatment of moral rights & collecting society royalties

In Version 3.0, we are ensuring that all CC jurisdiction licenses and
the CC unported license have consistent, express treatment of the issues
of moral rights and collecting society royalties (subject to national
differences). For more information about these changes, see this
explanation of the moral rights harmonization and this explanation of
the collecting society harmonization.

No Endorsement Language

That a person may not misuse the attribution requirement of a CC license
to improperly assert or imply an association or relationship with the
licensor or author, has been implicit in our licenses from the start. We
have now decided to make this explicit in both the Legal Code and the
Commons Deed to ensure that — as our licenses continue to grow and
attract a large number of more prominent artists and companies — there
will be no confusion for either the licensor or licensee about this
issue. For a more detailed explanation, see here.

BY-SA — Compatibility Structure Now Included

The CC BY-SA 3.0 licenses will now include the ability for derivatives
to be relicensed under a “Creative Commons Compatible License,” which
will be listed here. This structure realizes CC’s long-held objective of
ensuring that there are no legal barriers to people being able to remix
creativity in the way that flexible licenses are intended to enable.
More information about this is provided here.

Clarifications Negotiated With Debian & MIT

Finally, Version 3.0 of the licenses include minor clarifications to the
language of the licenses to take account of the concerns of Debian (more
details here) and MIT (more details here).

As part of discussions with Debian, it was proposed to allow the release
of CC-licensed works under DRM by licensees on certain conditions — what
was known as the “parallel distribution language” but this has not been
included as part of Version 3.0 of the CC licenses.

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