<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Heather Morrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca" target="_blank">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><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>If work is published under CC-BY and subsequently released by a downstream re-user under CC-0, this is a breach of the requirement of attribution, isn't it?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Facts are not copyrightable and downstream facts would therefore be released as CC 0. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<div>CC licenses involve waiver of rights under copyright. Using CC-0 on other people's work involves asserting copyright in order to waive it. If this project is not intending to produce work under copyright it does not make sense to assert copyright.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>CC 0 is NOT an assertion of copyright. It is a dedication (as far as is legally possible) into the public domain.<br></div><div>See <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0">https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0</a><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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