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deleting content of past authors under CC license

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  • Started 5 months ago by ttr1977
  • Latest reply from Yagan Kiely

  1. ttr1977
    Member

    Dear All,

    I am part of a collective blog licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5.

    As usual in collective blogs people come and go. We now are faced with a new problem. An ex-blogger that collaborated with us, months after leaving has decided to demand that his posts are taken down/deleted from the blog.

    We want to keep them. Not for commercial reasons (no ads and no income from the blog) but because we believe this forms an integral part of the blog, of our collective work, jointly with all the comments and links to those posts.

    The question is therefore: is the ex-blogger's demand justified under the CC license? Do we have to delete them since he was the author of those posts (he was and still is credited in each of them).

    thanks in advance
    best
    ttr

    Posted 5 months ago #

  2. Yagan Kiely
    Member

    If he was aware that he was releasing them with ANY CC license (which it is clear that he was aware), there is nothing he can legally do to force you to take down material that can clearly be shared legally.

    That said, I suggest working out some arrangement - it's never, ever good to leave someone feeling bad about their OWN creative works and about how they generously donated them (well maybe not in this case) to the public. Why doe s/he want them gone? There has to be a valid (in his/her opinion) reason to get rid of them.

    Regards,
    Yagan

    Posted 5 months ago #

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