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Shall Terms of Service Trump Public Licenses? - clacke

clacke — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:25:29 +0800

First, you own the copyright to any original work that you have created. But that means the right to copy your work, not the right to get a copy. Nobody can be forced to give you copies of any of your works, unless you have some service agreement with them.

Not even the GPL requires that anybody distribute anything, it merely says that *if* one distributes X, or more exactly, *in order to be allowed* to distribute X, one needs to also do Y.

Second, yes, you may say that a separate agreement with some party trumps whatever license you have stated for the general public. You can publish a work to the general public under CC-by-SA and at the same time sell it to some specific party under entirely separate conditions.

An artist might for example publish songs under CC-by-SA on their web site and at the same time sell them to some publisher under an agreement that demands royalties and in exchange doesn't require the publisher to give its customers any rights regarding the data distributed. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selli... for a software-oriented example.

The TOS you agreed to when using Flickr's service may or may not give them additional rights beyond those of whatever CC license you used for your works. Regardless, they are not required to provide you the service of giving you your data unless that's something you and they explicitly agreed to.

It seems they didn't agree to do it for free.

[ping] Free Culture Research Workshop 2009 (Report) - 創用 CC ─ Creative Commons Taiwan

創用 CC ─ Creative Commons Taiwan — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:39:56 +0800

「第三屆自由文化研究會議」徵求論文摘要

「第三屆自由文化研究會議」(The 3rd Free Culture Research Conference)將於2010年10月8-9日於柏林召開。此次會議由柏林自由大學(Free University of Berlin)和馬克斯·普朗克社會研究協會(Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)共同辦理，歐盟主題研究網絡COMMUNIA協力支援，多位學者參與籌備。這項會議是難得的學術場合，讓「自由文化」(Free...

[ping] Route 61 - trc

trc — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:34:07 +0800

trc's status on Wednesday, 17-Feb-10 09:34:00 UTC

Route 61 (and some photos) http://blog.pinang.org/post/2010/02/17/Route-61...

[ping] Road Trip to Kenting - trc

trc — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:41:05 +0800

trc's status on Tuesday, 16-Feb-10 16:41:33 UTC

Road Trip to Kenting (and some photos) http://blog.pinang.org/post/2010/02/16/Road-Trip-to-Kenting...

[ping] Free Culture Research Workshop 2009 (Report) - trc

trc — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:25:10 +0800

trc's status on Friday, 04-Dec-09 15:24:55 UTC

Obligatory trip report on Free Culture Research Workshop 2009: http://blog.pinang.org/post/2009/12/04/FCRW-2009...

[ping] International Semantic Web Conference 2009 (Report) - trc

trc — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:11:14 +0800

trc's status on Thursday, 03-Dec-09 09:11:10 UTC

Obligatory trip report on International Semantic Web Conference, 2009, http://blog.pinang.org/post/2009/12/03/ISWC-2009 !semweb !linkeddata...