{"id":"CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Austria","title":"Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Austria","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/at/legalcode","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The record models the BY-SA element set of the Creative Commons 2.0 port for Austria and it does so correctly: the ShareAlike element carries a cc:ShareAlike duty, the attribution and notice duties hang on the acts that make the work public, and the permissions, prohibitions and duties all follow from the grant and the restrictions sections of the port. The legal text was read in German. Corrections applied: dct:source, odrl:target dcmitype:Dataset. What remains are proposals that touch the whole Creative Commons family rather than this record, chiefly the express prohibition of sublicensing.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"dct:source","description":"The record carried cc:legalcode but no dct:source. The legal code page states the canonical URL of the licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/at/, and the six 4.0 International parents carry exactly that pair, legal code plus deed. Added.","action":"applied","change":"dct:source <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/at/> ;"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:target","description":"The record targeted dalicc:CreativeWork only, while the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-SA-4.0 targets dalicc:CreativeWork and dcmitype:Dataset. This port licenses database rights in its own words, so the asset type is text supported rather than merely plausible. Ziffer 1 counts a database among the objects of a related right: a \"verwandtes Schutzrecht\" is the right in a protected subject matter other than a work, \"zum Beispiel einem nachgelassenen Werk, einem Lichtbild, einer Datenbank, einem Schallträger, einer Rundfunksendung, einem Laufbild oder einer Darbietung eines ausübenden Künstlers\", and the Schutzgegenstand offered under the licence is the work, the collection or the object of such a related right. Ziffer 4 and Ziffer 7 name \"eine Datenbank\" next to an adaptation and a collection. Added dcmitype:Dataset.","action":"applied","change":"odrl:target [ a odrl:AssetCollection ;\n        dct:type dalicc:CreativeWork,\n            dcmitype:Dataset ] ;"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Every modelled permission is supported by the grant. Ziffer 3 grants a \"unentgeltliche, räumlich und zeitlich (für die Dauer des Urheberrechts oder verwandten Schutzrechts) unbeschränkte, nicht-ausschließliche Nutzungsbewilligung\", a free non exclusive permission of use unlimited in place and time. It covers exploitation in physical form (reproduction and distribution), communication to the public in non physical form (broadcasting, rebroadcasting, recitation, performance, presentation and making available), and fixation on image or sound carriers, and translation and other adaptation of the protected subject matter and the publication and exploitation of the adaptation (Ziffer 3.d). The record models this as odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:display, odrl:present, odrl:derive and cc:DerivativeWorks, plus odrl:modify and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, which rest on the technical modification sentence of the grant: Ziffer 3: \"Die genannte Nutzungsbewilligung beinhaltet die Befugnis, solche Veränderungen an dem Werk vorzunehmen, die technisch erforderlich sind, um die Nutzungsbewilligung für alle Nutzungsarten wahrzunehmen.\" cc:CommercialUse is permitted, which follows from a grant that puts no purpose limit on the rights.","action":"none"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The licence forbids sublicensing and the record does not say so. Ziffer 4: \"Sie dürfen den Schutzgegenstand nicht unterlizenzieren.\" 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 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.","action":"superseded","superseded_by":2,"change":"odrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:sublicense ] ;"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited, which the licence supports: Ziffer 4: \"Sie dürfen keine Vertragsbedingungen anbieten oder fordern, die die Bedingungen dieser Lizenz oder die durch sie gewährten Befugnisse ändern oder beschränken.\" dalicc:promote is prohibited, which rests on the reservation of all rights not expressly granted and the Creative Commons trademark paragraph of the notice around the licence body, not a clause of the licence itself","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The attribution and notice duties are present and supported. Ziffer 4 requires a copy or the full URI of the licence with every copy, distribution or communication to the public, and that all notices referring to the licence and to the exclusion of warranty and liability be left unchanged. Credit is owed to the \"Urheber oder Rechtsinhaber\", the author or the rights holder, rather than to an \"original author\"; an adaptation must state in which form the protected subject matter entered it; and the notice must be at least as prominent as comparable notices \"bei einer Bearbeitung, einer Datenbank oder einem Sammelwerk\". Ziffer 4 requires a derivative to say in which form the protected subject matter entered it (\"Bei einer Bearbeitung ist ein Hinweis darauf aufzuführen, in welcher Form der Schutzgegenstand in die Bearbeitung eingegangen ist\"). The duties hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, which matches the licence, since they are triggered by making the work public rather than by private use. The cc:ShareAlike duty is carried at the level of the odrl:Set, as in the parent CC-BY-SA-4.0.","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The share alike clause of this port is wider than a flat prohibition of relicensing. Ziffer 4: \"Sie duerfen eine Bearbeitung ausschliesslich unter den Bedingungen dieser Lizenz, einer spaeteren Version dieser Lizenz mit denselben Lizenzelementen wie diese Lizenz oder einer Creative Commons iCommons Lizenz, die dieselben Lizenzelemente wie diese Lizenz enthaelt, vervielfaeltigen, verbreiten oder im Sinne von Ziffer 3.b. dieses Vertrags oeffentlich wiedergeben.\" The record expresses it as a cc:ShareAlike duty plus a dalicc:ChangeLicense prohibition, which cannot say that a later version of the same licence, or another jurisdiction port with the same licence elements, is an acceptable outgoing licence. The 4.0 International parent CC-BY-SA-4.0 has the same limitation, and the consistency check would report a conflict if dalicc:ChangeLicense were permitted next to cc:ShareAlike, so the present modelling is the only one the checker allows.","action":"none"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation are quoted from the German text of this port and not from the English unported version, and each field holds its own clause. Ziffer 5 (Gewaehrleistung) and Ziffer 6 (Haftung) are separate sections of the legal code and the record keeps them apart: dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer holds Ziffer 5 and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation holds Ziffer 6, both quoted verbatim in German. Ziffer 6 carries the Austrian consumer protection carve out for dealings between businesses and consumers under the Konsumentenschutzgesetz, which no other port in the library has.","action":"none"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The record has no dalicc:additionalClauses, so the clauses the ODRL policy cannot carry stay invisible: the reservation of unnamed rights, the downstream offer to recipients, the severability, waiver and entire agreement paragraphs and the termination rule. Ziffer 7 ends the licence automatically on any breach and keeps Ziffern 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 alive; Ziffer 8 makes the licensor offer every recipient of the work, the adaptation or the collection a licence on the same terms. The whole Creative Commons family is modelled this way.","action":"none"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"cc:jurisdiction is bpicounty:Austria, which matches the country of the legal code URL https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/at/legalcode, and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, which matches a grant made for the duration of copyright. Ziffer 8: \"Auf diesen Lizenzvertrag findet das Recht der Bundesrepublik Österreich Anwendung.\" Note that cc:jurisdiction records the legal home of the port, not a territorial limit: the grant itself is unlimited in place.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The licence forbids technological protection measures and the vocabulary has no term for it. Ziffer 4: \"Sie dürfen den Schutzgegenstand mit keinen technischen Schutzmaßnahmen versehen, die den Zugang oder den Gebrauch des Schutzgegenstandes in einer Weise kontrollieren, die mit den Bedingungen dieser Lizenz im Widerspruch stehen.\" 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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"The automatic termination of the licence on breach, the survival of the named sections and the licence the licensor offers to every downstream recipient have no vocabulary terms. Ziffer 7 ends the licence automatically on any breach and keeps Ziffern 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 alive; Ziffer 8 makes the licensor offer every recipient of the work, the adaptation or the collection a licence on the same terms. Proposed terms: dalicc:terminationOnBreach and dalicc:downstreamOffer.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"Ziffer 4 keeps the grant inside the personality rights of authors and performers: the permission \"findet ihre gesetzliche Grenze in den Persoenlichkeitsrechten sowie im Schutz der berechtigten geistigen Interessen der Urheber und ausuebenden Kuenstler, die nicht dadurch gefaehrdet werden duerfen, dass ein Schutzgegenstand ueber das gesetzlich zulaessige Mass hinaus beeintraechtigt wird\". The clause restricts the licensee. Not expressible with the present vocabulary. Proposed terms: dalicc:moralRightsRestriction for the ports that bind the licensee and dalicc:moralRightsNonAssertion for the ports that bind the licensor.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The Austrian 2.0 port carries no collecting society clause at all: the word \"Verwertungsgesellschaft\" appears in none of its six legal texts, and no royalty is reserved or waived anywhere in the licence. The Australian, South African and Polish 2.0 ports of the same version do carry such a clause, and the German collecting society clause arrived only with the 3.0 port, so this is a real divergence inside one version.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"Port of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. 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 after the correction above the same odrl:target as well. What differs is the jurisdiction, the language of the legal text, the clause texts, and the version specific clauses of 2.0 that the model does not carry, chiefly the express prohibition of sublicensing, the technological measures clause and the royalty collection arrangements. The compatibility checker cannot tell this record from any other record of the BY-SA element set, across all three versions and every jurisdiction the library holds.","action":"none"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:promote was prohibited and no sentence of this text supports it. The statement was the library's reading of a legal default, that a copyright licence which says nothing about endorsement grants no right to it, and it sat in 519 of 581 records as a house convention. That reading is now an adopted dalicc:DefaultRule of the core dependency graph, which supplies it to every licence that is silent about the action, so a compatibility check reaches the same answer and the record states only what the text states. Removed on 2026-09-23; see section 13 of docs/LICENSE_REVIEW.md.","action":"applied","change":"# removed\nodrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:promote ] ;\n"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"major","field":"dalicc:terminatesOnBreach","description":"The termination clause of this port reads: \"Dieser Lizenzvertrag und die durch diesen erteilten Befugnisse enden automatisch bei jeder Verletzung der Vertragsbedingungen durch Sie.\" 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.","action":"applied"}],"family":"Creative Commons 2.0 port: Austria (AT)","port_of":"CC-BY-SA-4.0","variant_kind":"jurisdiction-port","notes":"The parent is the 4.0 International record of the same element set, since the library holds no unported and no International 2.0 record; the version difference, 2.0 against 4.0, is therefore part of the port relation and not only the jurisdiction. The SPDX licence list defines no identifier for this port, so the record carries no spdx:licenseId and none was invented. Nothing in this review is legal advice."}