[Odrl-cc] Meaning hidden in the name of profile?

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Tue Nov 30 04:00:20 EST 2004


Renato Iannella wrote:
> CC defines 2 Permissions that all licenses have:
>  - Reproduction - the work may be reproduced
>  - Distribution - the work (and, if authorized, derivative works) may be 
> distributed,
>                   publicly displayed, and publicly performed
> 
> The CC full license details are listed here:
>   <http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/fullrights>
> and include:
> "Every license allows licensees, provided they live up to your conditions,
>  (1) to copy the work
>  (2) to distribute it
>  (3) to display or perform it publicly
>  (4) to make digital public performances of it (e.g., webcasting)
>  (5) to shift the work into another format as a verbatim copy"
> 
> Trying to map the 2 Permissions to the above:
> - Reproduction = 1, 3?, 5
> - Distribution = 2, 3?, 4

I believe "publicly" is the key to (3) and modifies both "display" and 
"perform", so (3) maps to Distribution.

> Does (3) - which includes "display", belong to Reproduction?
> In other words does Reproduction actually cover the semantics of 
> display/play/execute/print - the four
> core use permissions from ODRL?
> 
> If it does, then we do not need a new explicit Permission.
> It if does not, then we do!

Reproduction does cover local display/play/execute/print, but not 
distribution of the results of those actions to others.

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   Mike Linksvayer
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