<div dir="ltr">On 8 April 2015 at 22:29, Couture Marc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc.couture@teluq.ca" target="_blank">marc.couture@teluq.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><span class=""></span><span lang="EN-CA">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”.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"></span><br></p></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And more explicitly from the legal code:<br><br><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode</a><br><br>"Notwithstanding
the above, Licensor reserves the right to release the
Work under different license terms or to stop
distributing the Work at any time"<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">G<br></div></div>