Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany

minor Rubric 1 dct:source applied

The record carried cc:legalcode but no dct:source. The legal code page of this port states the canonical URL of the licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/, and the six 4.0 International parents carry exactly that pair, legal code plus deed. Added.

minor Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

The SPDX licence list defines CC-BY-3.0-DE for this licence, with the legal code URL https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/legalcode as its see_also, and the entry is neither deprecated nor OSI approved. The record had no identifier. Added. Germany is the only port in this review group that SPDX knows: the other five ports have no SPDX identifier and none was invented for them.

minor Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

The record targeted dalicc:CreativeWork only, while the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-4.0 targets dalicc:CreativeWork and dcmitype:Dataset. This port settles the sui generis database right expressly. Section 1 defines the subject matter so that "Soweit Datenbanken oder Zusammenstellungen von Daten einen immaterialgueterrechtlichen Schutz eigener Art geniessen, unterfallen auch sie dem Begriff Schutzgegenstand im Sinne dieser Lizenz" (databases and compilations of data that enjoy sui generis protection are themselves subject matter of this licence), and Section 3 closes with the waiver "verzichtet der Lizenzgeber auf sämtliche aus diesem Schutz resultierenden Rechte". Section 4 adds that the restrictions do not bite on the parts that are subject matter only because of that sui generis protection. Because the legal text names databases as licensed subject matter and disposes of the database maker's right in the grant itself, dcmitype:Dataset was added here rather than left as a proposal, which is how the same question was decided for the Portuguese, Czech and Azerbaijani ports. The ports in this review group whose text has no database clause at all, Ecuador and Brazil, keep the proposal.

info Rubric 3 odrl:permission none

The modelled permissions follow the grant. Section 3 (Einraeumung von Nutzungsrechten) grants "das vergütungsfreie, räumlich und zeitlich (für die Dauer des Schutzrechts am Schutzgegenstand) unbeschränkte einfache Recht", called "unentgeltlich eingeräumtes einfaches Nutzungsrecht für jedermann": to reproduce the subject matter in any form and quantity and to integrate it into collective works, to make Abwandlungen (adaptations) including translations provided the change is made recognisable, to show and distribute the subject matter publicly, and to publish, show and distribute Abwandlungen. The record models this as odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:display, odrl:present, odrl:modify, odrl:derive, cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks. cc:CommercialUse is permitted, which follows from this element set carrying no commercial restriction.

info Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition none

dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited, which the licence supports: the work may be shared only under the terms of this licence and the licensee may not offer or impose terms that alter or restrict it or the rights of downstream recipients. dalicc:promote is prohibited, which the 3.0 text supports better than the 2.0 text did, because the no endorsement rule sits in the licence body rather than in the Creative Commons notice printed around it. Section 4(c): the Licensee may not "weder explizit noch implizit irgendeine Verbindung zum Lizenzgeber oder Zuschreibungsempfänger und ebenso wenig eine Unterstützung oder Billigung durch ihn andeuten".

info Rubric 5 odrl:duty none

The attribution and notice duties are present and supported: the licence requires a copy of the licence or its URI with every copy shared, that the notices referring to the licence and to the warranty clause be kept intact, and that credit be given, and in this port credit is owed to the Rechteinhaber and to the "Zuschreibungsempfaenger", the party designated for attribution, and a copy of the licence or its full URI must travel with every copy distributed or shown publicly. The duties hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, which matches the licence, since they are triggered by distributing or communicating the work to the public rather than by private use. dalicc:modificationNotice is supported by the duty to take reasonable steps to label a change.

info Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer none

dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation are quoted from the German text of this port and not from the English unported version, each holds its own clause and nothing of the other, and both were checked sentence by sentence against the legal code. Section 5 (Gewaehrleistung) and Section 6 (Haftungsbeschraenkung) are separate clauses and sit in separate fields. Both are rewritten for German law rather than translated: the warranty exclusion expressly does not apply where a defect was fraudulently concealed or where the defect causes the kind of damage named in Section 6, and Section 6 limits liability for injury to life, body or health to at least negligence and all other damage to gross negligence or intent. This is the furthest any clause pair in this review group travels from the unported text.

info Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The clauses the ODRL policy cannot carry are not visible in the record: the reservation of unnamed rights, the direct licence that every recipient receives from the licensor, the automatic termination on breach with the survival list, the severability, waiver and entire agreement paragraphs, and the royalty collection arrangements. The whole Creative Commons family is modelled this way, so this is a family observation rather than a defect of this record.

info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction none

cc:jurisdiction is bpicounty:Germany, which matches the country of the legal code URL https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/legalcode, and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, which matches a grant for the duration of the applicable copyright. Note that the jurisdiction field records the legal home of the port, not a territorial limit: the grant itself is worldwide. The port names no governing law.

gap Rubric 8 odrl:prohibition none

The licence forbids technological protection measures and the vocabulary has no term for it. Section 4(a): "Wenn Sie den Schutzgegenstand verbreiten oder öffentlich zeigen, dürfen Sie (in Bezug auf den Schutzgegenstand) keine technischen Maßnahmen ergreifen, die den Nutzer des Schutzgegenstandes in der Ausübung der ihm durch diese Lizenz gewährten Rechte behindern können." Proposed term: dalicc:applyTechnicalProtectionMeasures, an odrl:Action to be used as an odrl:Prohibition. Not modelled, because bending an existing term would be worse than the gap.

gap Rubric 8 record none

Two clauses of the licence body have no vocabulary term. Section 7 (Erloeschen): the licence ends automatically on breach, downstream licences survive, and the named sections survive. Proposed term: dalicc:terminationOnBreach. Section 8: every distribution or public showing carries an offer of a licence from the Licensor to the recipient on the same terms. Proposed term: dalicc:downstreamOffer.

gap Rubric 8 record none

Moral rights have no vocabulary term, in either direction. Section 4: "Persönlichkeitsrechte bleiben - soweit sie bestehen - von dieser Lizenz unberührt." Short, and in German law weighty, since the Urheberpersoenlichkeitsrecht cannot be assigned away. Proposed terms: dalicc:moralRightsRestriction for a clause that binds the licensee and dalicc:moralRightsNonAssertion for one in which the licensor undertakes not to assert them.

gap Rubric 8 record none

The royalty collection arrangement has no vocabulary term. Section 4(f) splits royalty collection three ways, all in the vocabulary of German collecting society law: "Unverzichtbare gesetzliche Vergütungsansprüche" (statutory licences and blank media levies), "Vergütung bei Zwangslizenzen" (compulsory licences) and "Vergütung in sonstigen Fällen", with the Verwertungsgesellschaft named as the channel and the reservation limited to uses that are not non commercial as defined in the NonCommercial clause. Proposed term: dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved, with a counterpart for the waiver. It is one of the few places where the ports of one version really differ from each other.

info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check with the forty one axioms of licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl reports no conflict, before and after the corrections, and the pre review baseline listed none for this record either.

info Rubric 10 record none

Port of CC-BY-4.0, the 4.0 International record of the same element set. The deontic model of this record is identical to the parent, statement for statement: the same permissions with the same duties, the same prohibitions and the same set level duties, and the same asset types too, now that the database clause of this port has brought dcmitype:Dataset into odrl:target. What differs is the jurisdiction, the language of the legal text, the clause texts and the version specific clauses of 3.0 that the model does not carry, chiefly the express prohibition of sublicensing, the technological measures clause, the royalty collection arrangement and the moral rights clause. The compatibility checker cannot tell this record from the other records of the BY element set, across all three versions and every jurisdiction the library holds.

major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

The record said nothing about the sui generis database right although the port's own text settles it, which the rubric 2 finding of this review read off the legal code: Section 1 counts a protected database as licensed subject matter, "Soweit Datenbanken oder Zusammenstellungen von Daten einen immaterialgueterrechtlichen Schutz eigener Art geniessen, unterfallen auch sie dem Begriff Schutzgegenstand im Sinne dieser Lizenz", and Section 3 closes with the waiver "verzichtet der Lizenzgeber auf sämtliche aus diesem Schutz resultierenden Rechte", and Section 4 adds that the restrictions do not bite on the parts that are subject matter only because of that sui generis protection. Exercising that right is therefore permitted by this licence and dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRights is now a permission of the record. It carries no duty, which is where the 3.0 ports part company with the 4.0 text their parent CC-BY-4.0 models: Section 4(c) of 4.0 carries the conditions of Section 3(a) over to the database layer, while this port takes its own restrictions off the material that qualifies only under the database right. Under the proposed default rule eu-sui-generis-db of licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_eu.ttl the database right is not granted unless the licence grants it, so a record that is silent reads as a licence that keeps the right back, which this text contradicts.

major Rubric 7 dalicc:terminatesOnBreach applied

The termination clause of this port reads: "Diese Lizenz und die durch sie eingeräumten Nutzungsrechte erlöschen mit Wirkung für die Zukunft im Falle eines Verstoßes gegen die Lizenzbedingungen durch Sie, ohne dass es dazu der Kenntnis des Lizenzgebers vom Verstoß oder einer weiteren Handlung einer der Vertragsparteien bedarf." The licence ends automatically on a breach and this version of the text has no reinstatement clause, so dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is true and no dalicc:curePeriod is written, as on the unported record of the same version.

settled odrl:prohibition

The licence forbids sublicensing and the record does not say so. "Sie dürfen den Schutzgegenstand nicht unterlizenzieren." Section 4(a). The vocabulary already has dalicc:sublicense, but no record in the library uses it and its skos:note says so, and the same sentence stands in every Creative Commons 2.0 and 3.0 record, so adding it to the thirty five ports of this review group alone would split the compatibility behaviour of one family. Proposed as one library wide correction, together with an update of the vocabulary note. Other review groups made the same recommendation.