Open konklone opened 9 years ago
As I reflect, I think this is Norway's problem. The OP suggests everyone write a license that treats Norway differently. If Norway wants to not have a true public domain, that's their policy to be had.
Yeah, what a horrible policy. I guess one mitigating factor is that it's constrained to music and text collecting societies (and of course just in Norway). And, it seems like the music collecting societies have been more active in actually trying to enforce this. I'm not sure if there's any legal hack that could get around this other than using a license instead of CC0, but the CC legal team is looking into it. I don't think it should change our recommendations to USG to use CC0. Maybe the existence of this strange and unfortunate policy will just have to be marked with an asterisk--although it's definitely something to keep an eye on especially if others begin to try to replicate it.
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2014-October/008866.html
And he's apparently validated this with the Norwegian government:
And in http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2014-October/008870.html -
If true, that's wildly obnoxious. @tvol, you have any thoughts on this?