One thing that you will have noticed is that there is no place on the licence that parties can sign to show their acceptance.
In the absence of signatures how can we know that the parties have agreed to the licence? If the use of a licenced work is ever in dispute in court one of […]

THE WORK (AS DEFINED BELOW) IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS CREATIVE COMMONS PUBLIC LICENSE (”CCPL” OR “LICENSE”). THE WORK IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT, PERFOMERS PROTECTIONAND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW. ANY USE OF THE WORK OTHER THAN AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS LICENSE OR COPYRIGHT LAW IS PROHIBITED.
In South Africa performances are protected by […]

The Draft South African Legal Code is headed:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Draft ZA 2.0
Although a South African 1.0 licence has not been released, the legal code for the first licence is based on the 2.0 version of the Universal Licenceand its Legal Code . To show that we have followed the 2.0 version of the universal licence […]

Lawyers especially common law lawyers have a great respect for precedent and not only do courts follow precedent but lawyers have traditionally used precedents in drafting legal documents. These tend to get handed down from one lawyer to another, being modified all the while, and tested in courts from time to time.
Thus most legal documents […]