Creative Commons 4.0 licenses approved

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

CC type licenses are invented to make life easier for authors of derivative works and anyone who wants to use the author's 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 modern level of digital technology development than standard copyright.

Creative Commons 4.0 retains the free spirit of previous versions of Creative Commons. In some places, the language has been clarified to better reflect the use of licenses in practice. For example, the attribution requirement has changed slightly to match how people actually 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 previously accepted 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 various languages.
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The major innovations of CC 4.0 are listed on this page . Among them - the best support for anonymity, a 30-day period for correcting license violations, simplified wording, etc.

Version 4.0 should work without changes for many years. The previous version 3.0 was adopted in February 2007 and served faithfully for more than five years. In 2011, the community found it necessary to set a goal to develop a new license. The new version should remain relevant even longer than the previous one.

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 The United States also pushes countries to set a copyright term of 95 years for corporate work and 120 years for unpublished work.

The foundation of electronic frontiers strongly opposes the increase in the terms of copyright and secrecy in the conduct of such negotiations. “Both of these international agreements, which provide for copyright and digital freedoms, threaten the rights of millions of citizens,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a statement . - Trade agreements contain such rules because the US Trade Representation discusses them without consulting the public. 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. ”