[GOAL] Re: What is the GOAL?

[Graham Triggs]

On 8 April 2015 at 22:29, Couture Marc <marc.couture at teluq.ca> wrote:

>  I’m not sure about that. According to the legal code, the license
> applies to the work “to which the Licensor applied [the] license”, not to a
> specific copy of it. And the licensee (“You”), is not someone who obtains a
> copy, but “any individual exercising the Licensed Rights”.
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And more explicitly from the legal code:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

"Notwithstanding the above, Licensor reserves the right to release the Work
under different license terms or to stop distributing the Work at any time"

So it is directly asserted that the licensor (e.g. a publisher) could stop
distributing the work with a CC-BY licence at any time, and distribute the
work with any other licence.

Whether a publisher actually can is not a facet of the CC-BY licence, but
the agreements / contracts entered into with the authors of the work.

As I said before, that the license is "irrevocable" does not cover what the
licensor is permitted to do in how they choose to distribute / stop
distributing / distribute with a different license. It covers only a
licensee's rights as granted to them when they obtained that work - whether
directly from the licensor, or through a permitted redistribution - in
acceptance of those license terms.

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