Description

The second paragraph of the FAQ entry "How do I apply a CC legal tool to a database?" contains a misformatted link due to a missing open paren.

Reproduction

1. Visit https://creativecommons.org/faq/#how-do-i-apply-a-cc-legal-tool-to-a-database
2. Read second paragraph

Expectation

"marking page" should be linked to https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Marking_your_work_with_a_CC_license

Screenshots

Resolution

• I would be interested in resolving this bug.

This text: "CC ne recommande pas l'utilisation de ses" is in much larger font than the rest of the FAQ answer, and is separated from the remainder of the sentence on the next line.

formatting seriously messed up on one of them, and another table is missing entirely.

Description

Remove duplicate files (CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, CONTRIBUTING.md) from the repository to ensure alignment with organizational defaults as outlined in GitHub Repo Guidelines.
Also, update the readme file.

Related to:

• creativecommons/.github#38

Resolution

• I would be interested in resolving this bug.

Text:

Cette page remplace les Bases de Données et Creative Commons.

Une grande partie de la valeur potentielle des données profite à la société au sens large - plus de données a le potentiel de faciliter une meilleure collaboration scientifique et la reproductibilité, des marchés plus efficaces, l'augmentation de la transparence du gouvernement et des entreprises, et globalement à accélérer la découverte et la compréhension des solutions des besoins sociaux planétaires.

Une grande partie de la valeur potentielle de données, en particulier sa large valeur à l’échelle de la société, est réalisée par l'utilisation à travers les frontières organisationnelles. Comment cela se produit légalement? De nombreux sites donnent la permission stricte d'utiliser des données selon des conditions de service. Beaucoup de partage de données ad hoc se produit également entre les chercheurs. Et de plus en plus le partage des données est facilité par la distribution, en vertu de certaines normes, d’outils juridiques publics utilisés pour gérer les droits d'auteur et des restrictions similaires qui pourraient autrement limiter la diffusion ou la réutilisation des données, par exemple les licences CC ou CC0 dédiées au domaine public.

De nombreuses organisations, institutions et gouvernements utilisent des outils de CC pour les données. Pour les études de cas sur la façon dont ces outils sont appliqués, voir:

Utilisations des licences CC avec des données et des bases de données: Utilisations de CC0 avec des données et des bases de données.

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The Creative Commons Wiki has a lot of old/inaccurate content. Revise one wiki page and post a link to your contribution here. Please ask questions about any content you are unsure of.

To get edit access to the wiki, please sign up for a CCID here and tell us about it in #cc-gsoc-outreachy on Slack. We will give your account edit permissions.

Source file: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/File:CC_License_Compatibility_Chart.png

It belongs in this FAQ: Puis-je combiner du matériel sous différentes licences Creative Commons dans mon œuvre?

Description

We have created a new online resource to replace two existing questions in the main FAQ. (This is part of our ongoing gradual effort to make the explanatory resources more discoverable and user-friendly.)

Requested change

Please replace the existing answers to What can I do if I offer my material under a Creative Commons license and I do not like the way someone uses it? and What happens if I offer my material under a Creative Commons license and someone misuses them? with the following:

"Please see our Guide on What to do if Your CC-Licensed Work is Misused."

Text:

Support for this French translation was provided by Open Data Institute as part of the OD4D program. Translation by Dr Pierre El Khoury (CC Lebanon Legal Lead).

https://creativecommons.org/faq/

The disclaimer should remain at the top of the page, even when someone is viewing a full table of contents of all FAQs.

This text: Creative Commons ne fournit pas de conseils juridiques. Cette FAQ est à titre informatif et ne constitue pas un substitut à des conseils juridiques. Elle peut ne pas porter sur des questions importantes qui vous touchent. Vous devriez consulter votre propre avocat si vous avez des questions.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
This isn't necessarily a problem, just something I think would be a good change. The FAQ page has a lot of links at the top, and they're all packed together. I think it would be more user friendly to separate them into <details> elements, and allow them to drop down instead of having all visible, all the time. This would (in my opinion) make it easier to find what a user would want by searching categorically, instead of trying to parse the sea of blue letters.

Describe the solution you'd like
Make the "section heading" parts into <details> elements.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I can't think of anything other than putting the links into dropdowns...

I would be happy to work on this, pending approval, of course :)

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Enter some of CC’s FAQs into a knowledge base software so that they can be searched by keywords. Please make clear that it is not official CC FAQs and just a test project. Post the link to this knowledge base here.

[it was omitted by accident]

Que faire si je reçois du matériel sous licence CC alourdit par des mesures techniques efficaces (tels que les DRM)?

Si vous avez reçu du matériel sous licence CC qui est alourdit par de mesures techniques efficaces (comme les DRM), vous pouvez être autorisés ou non, selon les circonstances, à le briser. En publiant le matériel sous une licence CC, le concédant de licence accepte de ne pas faire valoir les droits qu'il pourrait avoir pour empêcher le contournement des mesures techniques efficaces. (ceci est implicite en vertu des licences 3.0 et non pas explicite.) Toutefois, s’il l’a téléchargé vers un site ou un autre canal de distribution qui applique lui-même ces mesures, ce site peut avoir le droit de vous empêcher de les contourner, même si le concédant de licence ne peut pas le faire lui-même.

Notez que les lois anti-contournement ne peuvent pas engager la responsabilité pénale dans certaines juridictions.

On this page: https://creativecommons.org/faq/fr/ at the very bottom is says: "Support for this French translation was provided by Open Data Institute as part of the OD4D program. Translation by Dr Pierre El Khoury (CC Lebanon Legal Lead)."

@Juliabrungs and @peterspdx would like this line of text to be deleted. I'm unable to do it myself because the page is not on Wordpress.

Thanks!

See related issue posted separately but for English FAQs for more information.

Description

#76 (comment):

This isn't semantically correct. The h2 of "notes" would need to be inside the section element, as a section generally requires a heading element to denote it.

It could be argued that of the two, the aside is actually a more appropriate element, but it too would need the h2 to be within it as well. An aside does not require a heading element within it, but if one appears for it, it must appear within it.

The MOST semantic, and likely correct route, would be for the endnotes to appear (with the associated h2) within a footer element (instead of a section or aside). As they are meant to be footnotes for the main section, that is the next parent level sectioning element and they would then be semantically associated as the "footer of the main area", which is much more accurate to what the footnotes are in this case.

sooo...

<footer>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>
notes here
</footer>
</main>

As divs are semantically meaningless whether it appears before or after the closing div tag is semantically irrelevant, just whichever one wouldn't throw off the visual styling.

Expectation

HTML should be semantic and provide best possible support for accessibility aids

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Create a short video (which does not have to be fancy!) that answers a particularly important CC FAQ. Post the link to your video here.

FAQ has a lot of references to the search as search.creativecommons.org, should it point to the new ccsearch?

Description

In the section How should I decide which license to choose?, there is a link to examples that demonstrate how various licenses fit into licensors’ overall strategies.

The link is https://creativecommons.org/examples, which redirects to https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-examples

Reproduction

1. Go to https://creativecommons.org/faq/#how-should-i-decide-which-license-to-choose
2. Click on a list of examples
3. See error.

Expectation

There should be a list of examples in the destination, or the link should not be mentioned at all.

Text:

Creative Commons does not provide legal advice. This FAQ is for informational purposes and is not a substitute for legal advice. It may not cover important issues that affect you. You should consult with your own lawyer if you have questions.

Legal and others used this feature a lot, when answering info@ requests and replying to other inquiries. If this can be done through a secondary toggle (beneath the top level toggle) then that's fine, or if you have another solution. This is for both the English and the French FAQs.

Problem Description

I know the CC0 has it's own FAQ - but some phrases in the FAQ is unclear to me at least on whether they apply to CC0 or not.

All CC licenses are non-exclusive: creators and owners can enter into additional, different licensing arrangements for the same material at any time (often referred to as “dual-licensing” or “multi-licensing”). However, CC licenses are not revocable once granted unless there has been a breach, and even then the license is terminated only for the breaching licensee.

I'm no lawyer, and I don't quite know if dual-licensing of CC0 is possible or not or if the public domain dedication is exclusive or not. I think if the text above does not apply to CC0 (which I think it may not) then it should be made clearer.

Proposed Solution

Make it clear whether CC0 is included in statements like "All CC licenses"

The FAQ page (https://creativecommons.org/faq/) has some or many broken links.

• Broken link: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#What_is_copyright_and_why_does_it_matter

  • Source: "What does 'Some Rights Reserved' mean?" section and "What are Creative Commons licenses?" section
  • Correct link: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#what-is-copyright-and-why-does-it-matter
  • Supposed to link to the "What is copyright and why does it matter?" section
  • Reason: Dashes (-) replaced the underscore (_).

• 2nd broken link: https://creativecommons.org/faq/License%20versions

  • Source: "Which is the latest version of the licenses offered by Creative Commons?" section
  • Correct link: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/License_Versions
  • Supposed to link to "License Versions" page at wiki page.
  • Reason: "wiki" should have been included in the URL; "faq" should not be used.

Some more, but they are too lengthy to describe.

We have a new q&a to add to the FAQ page: https://creativecommons.org/faq/

The text, which has been approved by Legal, is in this doc: TOS faq - Google Docs

The question should go at the end of the Using Licensed Material section of questions (https://creativecommons.org/faq/#using-licensed-material)

Please let me know if you have any questions or need additional info. Thank you!

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Identify ten instances of excellent FAQs that exist on other organizations’ or companies’ websites. Post your research here.

Replace first sentence with this sentence:

Une modification des éléments sous licence serait considérée comme une adaptation selon les licences CC dépendemment du droit d’auteur applicable.

There's a lot of references to the Affiliates and we should change that for a language more connected with the CC Network.

@simeonoriko can work on updating information there regarding CC Chapters and Network Platforms

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Research open source knowledge base software and write up a set of recommendations about what you think CC should be using. Post your recommendations here.

Problem

the problem is that the yellow block at the right side of the website https://creativecommons.org/faq/ is much longer than it should be.

Description

we have to reduce the size of the block to the end of the text not to the end of the page. this will improve the visibility and atteaction of the website.

Alternatives

Additional context

Orignal:-

it is till the end.

Expected:-

Implementation

• I would be interested in implementing this feature.

Abréviations
• BY = Attribution seulement
• BY-ND = Attribution - Pas de Modification -Pas de travaux dérivés
• BY-NC-ND = Pas de travaux dérivés de Paternité-NonCommercial-
• BY-NC = Attribution-NonCommercial
• BY-NC-SA = Attribution-ShareAlike NonCommercial-
• BY-SA = Attribution-ShareAlike
• PD = Dédié à ou marqué comme étant dans le domaine public par l'intermédiaire de l'un de nos outils de domaine public ou autres documents du domaine public; des adaptations de matériaux dans le domaine public peuvent être construits sur et autorisés par le créateur dans les conditions de licence souhaités.

The links in this text are broken (see bolded, italicized text where links exist but are broken):

If you're looking for legal advice about using CC licenses and other tools, we recommend contacting the Creative Commons affiliate in your jurisdiction. CC affiliates are highly connected to the communities of copyright lawyers in their countries. We also offer a list of lawyers and organizations who have identified themselves as willing to provide information to others about CC licensing issues.

Tableau de licence du concédant.pdf

Provided for purposes of showing the translation of the English text into French only, please use formatting of the existing table that's used in the English FAQ.

From message received on website:

I found a broken link on the FAQ page. It's under For Licensors - Choosing a License - What things should I think about before I apply a Creative Commons license?

The first hyperlink in this FAQ ("some things that you should consider") goes to a 404 not found page. I believe it is supposed to direct to the "Considerations for licensors and licensees" wiki page (https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Considerations_for_licensors_and_licensees).

(1) Capitalize the word "les" at the beginning of this FAQ: les organisations gouvernementales et inter-gouvernementales peuvent-elles utiliser des licences CC ?

(2) Change font of this text so same size as text just above it: "CC offre des données sur les meilleures pratiques pour le marquage de votre matériel et sur la façon de marquer les matériels dans différents médias."

(3) Change font of example notice text so same size as other text in the answer to the FAQ: "« Le texte et les illustrations de ce document sont autorisées par Red Hat sous une licence non-adaptée Creative Commons Attribution - Partage dans les Mêmes Conditions 3.0 (“ CC-BY-SA “). . . . Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, le logo du Shadowman, JBoss, MetaMatrix, Fedora, le logo de Infinity, et RHCE sont des marques de Red Hat, Inc., déposées aux États-Unis et dans d’autres pays. Pour les lignes directrices sur les utilisations autorisées des marques de Fedora, consultez https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines"

(4) This text, "Vous devez également indiquer si vous avez" is in large font, and is actually the beginning of the sentence that is continued on the next line. Change font size and join with rest of sentence.

(5) Remove html code (####) appearing in this section: Puis-je utiliser des mesures techniques efficaces (tels que les DRM) quand je partage le matériel sous licence CC?

(6) This FAQ is in larger font size than other equivalent FAQs within the section, harmonize: Qu’advient-il si l’auteur décide de révoquer la licence CC qui s’applique sur du matériel que j’utilise ?

(7) Same as (6), for this FAQ: Quels sont les droits sui generis sur les bases de données?

(8)This text, "CC ne recommande pas l'utilisation de ses" is in large font, and is actually the beginning of the sentence that continues on the next line. Change font size and join with rest of sentence.

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Review CC’s FAQs and design a user friendly page that incorporates what you believe to be the ten most important ones. Make a new folder in this repository with your HTML and CSS files and submit it as a pull request.

Usage of CC Vocabulary is recommended but not required.

(1) HTML coding showing in various places under this FAQ: If I derive or adapt material offered under a Creative Commons license, which CC license(s) can I use? Remove and bold headings.

(2) HTML coding showing at end of the text just after Data heading (it's an :)

Email from user:

Hi, I just wanted to bring your attention to a broken link:
https://creativecommons.org/faq/
under this question:

What if I change my mind about using a CC License?

There's a link to this: https://creativecommons.org/faq/Considerations%20for%20licensors%20and%20licensees
I believe the correct link is one of these, but I'll let you sort that out:
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Considerations_for_licensors_and_licensees
or
https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/version4/

Collection chart for FAQs in French.pdf

Only providing for purposes of showing the translation -- should use English chart and replace with French where there is translation.

The actual FAQ question and any subsection header should be larger than the text of the answer, and the main section header still larger.

Here is an example of getting it right:

For Licensors is larger than the subsection heading "Choosing a license", and that the actual question "What things should I think about before I apply a Creative Commons license?" are larger than the text of the answer.

Here is an example of where it's wrong -- appears to just be under the Data FAQs. But, e.g., this question: Can databases be released under CC licenses?, is the same font size as the text of the answer, as is the case thereafter.

Additional comment: note that this is different than the French. In the French, the Section header is largest, then the Subsection header, and then the question. E.g,
Choisir une licence (Section header is largest)
Pour les concédants de licence (Subsection header is smaller)
A quoi penser avant de demander une licence Creative Commons (question is still smaller)

Would be nice if the French and the English were the same.