Let us see how all the above ideas apply to concrete licenses. All of the following excerpts were retrieved from on-line sources in 2004 and 2005. Basic ideas of the licenses, however, remain the same, so the analysis presented here is valid.
Licence Art Libre or Free Art License
Location: http://www.artlibre.org/licence.php/lalgb.html
Excerpt
“Knowledge and creativity are resources which, to be true to themselves, must remain free (. . .)
This work of art is subject to copyright, and the author, by this license, specifies the extent to which you can copy, distribute and modify it (. . .)
You can freely distribute the copies of these works, modified or not, whatever their medium, wherever you wish, for a fee or for free, if you observe all the following conditions: - attach this license, in its entirety, to the copies or indicate precisely where the license can be found, - specify to the recipient the name of the author of the originals, - specify to the recipient where he will be able to access the originals (original and subsequent). The author of the original may, if he wishes, give you the right to broadcast/distribute the original under the same conditions as the copies (. . .)
This license is subject to French law.”
Comments
The Art Libre License contains the following advantages or features for the normal functioning of a work of art:
- Freedom of use: creative, commercial, and non-commercial
- Mandatory attribution to the author
- Not limited to a specific kind of art
