Creative Commons and the Grand Challenge to Make Legal Language Simple
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Original language name
Creative Commons and the Grand Challenge to Make Legal Language Simple
Original language description
In this paper we analyze the Creative Commons computerized licensing system. We draw the attention to the fact that despite considerable efforts to make the complicated task of licensing work using so-called free license as simple as possible, the systemis apt to give rise to countless ambiguities often leading to copyright infringements. We maintain that the phenomenon has been caused by the modifications of 'language' that facilitates the communication of the relevant section of law and consequent loss of vital context and structure in the framework of which the communication has to be perceived. We come to a conclusion that while context and structure preserving modifications should be regarded as the preferable method of simplifying legal language, its scope is too narrow to achieve the goal of making legal language easily understandable for a layperson.
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O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AG - Legal sciences
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S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2011
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů