Creative Commons 4.0 License Text Approved

After more than two years of discussion, the non-profit organization Creative Commons has released a new version of the popular Creative Commons license suite . As you know, this type of license allows copyright holders to alienate some exclusive rights related to copyright, while at the same time leaving others behind.

CC licenses were invented to make life easier for authors of derivative works and anyone who wants to use copyright work for legitimate purposes. These licenses allow search engines to index the text of a work and, in general, are more in line with the current level of digital technology development than standard copyright.

Creative Commons 4.0preserves the free spirit of previous versions of Creative Commons. In some places, the wording has been clarified to better reflect the use of licenses in practice. For example, the requirement of attribution has changed slightly to match how in reality people refer to the original work. Attribution rules have become more flexible and realistic.

Among the most significant changes in Creative Commons 4.0 is the abolition of the earlier practice of “porting” licenses for various jurisdictions. From now on, a single Creative Commons 4.0 license will be valid for all countries of the world, and the organization will prepare an official translation into different languages.

Highlights of CC 4.0 listed on this page.. Among them are the best support for anonymity, a 30-day period for correcting license violations, simplified wordings, etc.

Version 4.0 should work unchanged for many years. The previous version 3.0 was adopted in February 2007 and has served faithfully for more than five years. In 2011, the community found it necessary to set the goal of developing a new license. The new version should remain relevant even longer than the previous one.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation supports the adoption of the new license and the fact that the discussion of this standard is open and transparent, in contrast to the secret international copyright negotiations held by the United States. Drafts of secret documents were recently posted on Wikileaks. Among other things, the agreement provides for the establishment of a new minimum period for the protection of copyright : not less than 100 years after the death of the author. The US is also pushing countries to set a copyright term of 95 years for corporate work and 120 years for unpublished work.

The Electronic Frontier Fund is categorically against both increasing the terms of copyright and secrecy in conducting such negotiations. “Both of these international agreements, which provide for copyright and digital freedom standards, threaten the rights of millions of citizens,” the statement said.Electronic Frontier Fund. - Trade agreements contain such rules because the US Trade Representation discusses them without public consultation. Instead, these agreements unilaterally protect corporate interests, and corporations are not particularly interested in how the agreement will affect the Internet and our digital rights. ”