08-Jan-2012, 4:45 PM
Quote:It gets difficult involving the CCLP level packs, as the team will have to decide what to do with them. This is not Chip's Portal, and Andrew won't be involved anymore. As I'm the current owner of CC Zone, I promise to treat the community well this time around, and I will not put copyright on any custom made levelsets. Not even if there was an official CC Zone Level Pack, I still would have no problem with it.
I don't want to accuse the fine admins here of having any designs on the works submitted here...I just was kind of liking the idea of allowing users to specify what their levels can be used for in a more structured way. Not that it wasn't possible for that to be done before, since I think I saw BigOto using a copyright notice in his set. And you're right, the CC Zone administration present-and-future would not be party to what happens with community levelset, but the team would. I just somewhat dislike the idea of the assumption of public domain on everything here, due to the potential for other people to use the works in ways the author disliked. If someone did put a notice that prohibits derived works, someone could unknowingly make a tribute level that infringes on that copyright and upsets the person who originally wrote the level. If these examples seem contrived, I apologize. It's probable that people here do not think this is a big enough deal to go through the rigmarole of writing copyright notices or even deciding what license they particularly care for. I'm trying to raise awareness of a sort.