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- Free Art License 1.3
- [ Copyleft Attitude ]
- Free Art License 1.3 (FAL 1.3)
- Preamble
- The Free Art License grants the right to freely copy, distribute, and
- transform creative works without infringing the author's rights.
- The Free Art License recognizes and protects these rights. Their
- implementation has been reformulated in order to allow everyone to use
- creations of the human mind in a creative manner, regardless of their
- types and ways of expression.
- While the public's access to creations of the human mind usually is
- restricted by the implementation of copyright law, it is favoured by
- the Free Art License. This license intends to allow the use of a
- work’s resources; to establish new conditions for creating in order to
- increase creation opportunities. The Free Art License grants the right
- to use a work, and acknowledges the right holder’s and the user’s
- rights and responsibility.
- The invention and development of digital technologies, Internet and
- Free Software have changed creation methods: creations of the human
- mind can obviously be distributed, exchanged, and transformed. They
- allow to produce common works to which everyone can contribute to the
- benefit of all.
- The main rationale for this Free Art License is to promote and protect
- these creations of the human mind according to the principles of
- copyleft: freedom to use, copy, distribute, transform, and prohibition
- of exclusive appropriation.
- Definitions
- “work” either means the initial work, the subsequent works or the
- common work as defined hereafter:
- “common work” means a work composed of the initial work and all
- subsequent contributions to it (originals and copies). The initial
- author is the one who, by choosing this license, defines the
- conditions under which contributions are made.
- “Initial work” means the work created by the initiator of the common
- work (as defined above), the copies of which can be modified by
- whoever wants to
- “Subsequent works” means the contributions made by authors who
- participate in the evolution of the common work by exercising the
- rights to reproduce, distribute, and modify that are granted by the
- license.
- “Originals” (sources or resources of the work) means all copies of
- either the initial work or any subsequent work mentioning a date and
- used by their author(s) as references for any subsequent updates,
- interpretations, copies or reproductions.
- “Copy” means any reproduction of an original as defined by this
- license.
- 1. OBJECT
- The aim of this license is to define the conditions under which one
- can use this work freely.
- 2. SCOPE
- This work is subject to copyright law. Through this license its author
- specifies the extent to which you can copy, distribute, and modify it.
- 2.1 FREEDOM TO COPY (OR TO MAKE REPRODUCTIONS)
- You have the right to copy this work for yourself, your friends or any
- other person, whatever the technique used.
- 2.2 FREEDOM TO DISTRIBUTE, TO PERFORM IN PUBLIC
- You have the right to distribute copies of this work; whether modified
- or not, whatever the medium and the place, with or without any charge,
- provided that you: attach this license without any modification to the
- copies of this work or indicate precisely where the license can be
- found, specify to the recipient the names of the author(s) of the
- originals, including yours if you have modified the work, specify to
- the recipient where to access the originals (either initial or
- subsequent).
- The authors of the originals may, if they wish to, give you the right
- to distribute the originals under the same conditions as the copies.
- 2.3 FREEDOM TO MODIFY
- You have the right to modify copies of the originals (whether initial
- or subsequent) provided you comply with the following conditions: all
- conditions in article 2.2 above, if you distribute modified copies;
- indicate that the work has been modified and, if it is possible, what
- kind of modifications have been made; distribute the subsequent work
- under the same license or any compatible license.
- The author(s) of the original work may give you the right to modify it
- under the same conditions as the copies.
- 3. RELATED RIGHTS
- Activities giving rise to author’s rights and related rights shall not
- challenge the rights granted by this license.
- For example, this is the reason why performances must be subject to
- the same license or a compatible license. Similarly, integrating the
- work in a database, a compilation or an anthology shall not prevent
- anyone from using the work under the same conditions as those defined
- in this license.
- 4. INCORPORATION OF THE WORK
- Incorporating this work into a larger work that is not subject to the
- Free Art License shall not challenge the rights granted by this
- license.
- If the work can no longer be accessed apart from the larger work in
- which it is incorporated, then incorporation shall only be allowed
- under the condition that the larger work is subject either to the Free
- Art License or a compatible license.
- 5. COMPATIBILITY
- A license is compatible with the Free Art License provided: it gives
- the right to copy, distribute, and modify copies of the work including
- for commercial purposes and without any other restrictions than those
- required by the respect of the other compatibility criteria; it
- ensures proper attribution of the work to its authors and access to
- previous versions of the work when possible; it recognizes the Free
- Art License as compatible (reciprocity); it requires that changes made
- to the work be subject to the same license or to a license which also
- meets these compatibility criteria.
- 6. YOUR INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS
- This license does not aim at denying your author's rights in your
- contribution or any related right. By choosing to contribute to the
- development of this common work, you only agree to grant others the
- same rights with regard to your contribution as those you were granted
- by this license. Conferring these rights does not mean you have to
- give up your intellectual rights.
- 7. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- The freedom to use the work as defined by the Free Art License (right
- to copy, distribute, modify) implies that everyone is responsible for
- their own actions.
- 8. DURATION OF THE LICENSE
- This license takes effect as of your acceptance of its terms. The act
- of copying, distributing, or modifying the work constitutes a tacit
- agreement. This license will remain in effect for as long as the
- copyright which is attached to the work. If you do not respect the
- terms of this license, you automatically lose the rights that it
- confers.
- If the legal status or legislation to which you are subject makes it
- impossible for you to respect the terms of this license, you may not
- make use of the rights which it confers.
- 9. VARIOUS VERSIONS OF THE LICENSE
- This license may undergo periodic modifications to incorporate
- improvements by its authors (instigators of the “Copyleft Attitude”
- movement) by way of new, numbered versions.
- You will always have the choice of accepting the terms contained in
- the version under which the copy of the work was distributed to you,
- or alternatively, to use the provisions of one of the subsequent
- versions.
- 10. SUB-LICENSING
- Sub-licenses are not authorized by this license. Any person wishing to
- make use of the rights that it confers will be directly bound to the
- authors of the common work.
- 11. LEGAL FRAMEWORK
- This license is written with respect to both French law and the Berne
- Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
- USER GUIDE
- - How to use the Free Art License?
- To benefit from the Free Art License, you only need to mention the
- following elements on your work:
- [Name of the author, title, date of the work. When applicable, names
- of authors of the common work and, if possible, where to find the
- originals].
- Copyleft: This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it
- under the terms of the Free Art License
- http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
- - Why to use the Free Art License?
- 1.To give the greatest number of people access to your work.
- 2.To allow it to be distributed freely.
- 3.To allow it to evolve by allowing its copy, distribution, and
- transformation by others.
- 4.So that you benefit from the resources of a work when it is under
- the Free Art License: to be able to copy, distribute or transform
- it freely.
- 5.But also, because the Free Art License offers a legal framework to
- disallow any misappropriation. It is forbidden to take hold of
- your work and bypass the creative process for one's exclusive
- possession.
- - When to use the Free Art License?
- Any time you want to benefit and make others benefit from the right to
- copy, distribute and transform creative works without any exclusive
- appropriation, you should use the Free Art License. You can for
- example use it for scientific, artistic or educational projects.
- - What kinds of works can be subject to the Free Art License?
- The Free Art License can be applied to digital as well as physical
- works. You can choose to apply the Free Art License on any text,
- picture, sound, gesture, or whatever sort of stuff on which you have
- sufficient author's rights.
- - Historical background of this license:
- It is the result of observing, using and creating digital
- technologies, free software, the Internet and art. It arose from the
- “Copyleft Attitude” meetings which took place in Paris in 2000. For
- the first time, these meetings brought together members of the Free
- Software community, artists, and members of the art world. The goal
- was to adapt the principles of Copyleft and free software to all sorts
- of creations. http://www.artlibre.org
- Copyleft Attitude, 2007.
- You can make reproductions and distribute this license verbatim
- (without any changes).
- Translation : Jonathan Clarke, Benjamin Jean, Griselda Jung, Fanny
- Mourguet, Antoine Pitrou. Thanks to framalang.org
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