What legal standing will CC licenses have outside of the United States?
We and our lawyers have worked hard to craft the licenses to be enforceable in as many jurisidictions as possible. That said, we can not account for every last nuance in the world’s various copyright laws, at least not given our current resources. We hope, as our resources and network of allies grow, to begin offering licenses designed for specific jurisdictions sometime in 2003. Please note, however, that our licenses contain “severability” clauses — meaning that, if a certain provision is found to be unenforeceable in a certain place, that provision and only that provision drops out of the license, leaving the rest of the agreement intact.
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