Creative Commons licence wins first legal challenge

Posted by Herschel_Cohen on Mar 17, 2006 6:26 PM EDT
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In a landmark decision a Dutch court has ruled in favour of a Creative Commons licence in a case involving pictures published by MTV personality Adam Curry. The pictures were reproduced by a Dutch newspaper without Curry's permission.

[ED: This is just one of the reasons I dislike the proliferation of supposed variations of Open Source and Free licenses for software: it is just too easy to make a good faith error that hurts too many. - HC]

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Not A Good Faith Error Or License Proliferation Problem dcparris 0 1,162 Mar 17, 2006 7:28 PM

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