{"id":"CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike30Ecuador","title":"Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Ecuador","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ec/legalcode","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The record models the BY-SA element set of the Creative Commons 3.0 port for Ecuador and the grant and restriction sections support it: the attribution and notice duties hang on the acts that share the work with the public, and the prohibitions follow the restrictions clause. The legal text was read in Spanish. Corrections applied: dct:source. 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 of this port states the canonical URL of the licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ec/, 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/3.0/ec/> ;"},{"rubric":1,"severity":"info","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"SPDX has no identifier for this port. The legal code URL implies CC-BY-SA-3.0-EC, which the SPDX licence list does not define, so none was invented. Of the thirty five records in this review group only the six German ones take an SPDX identifier.","action":"none"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:target","description":"The record targets dalicc:CreativeWork, while the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-SA-4.0 targets dalicc:CreativeWork and dcmitype:Dataset. This port has no database clause at all: it neither licenses nor waives a sui generis database right, and its definition of the licensed subject matter does not name databases, so the evidence that justified adding the type to the European ports of this review group is missing here. Creative Commons licences are media neutral and the grant runs to all media and formats now known or later devised, so the type is defensible on general grounds. Proposed, as one decision over every Creative Commons port without a database clause.","action":"proposed","change":"odrl:target [ a odrl:AssetCollection ;\n        dct:type dalicc:CreativeWork,\n            dcmitype:Dataset ] ;"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The modelled permissions follow the grant. Section 3 (Concesion de la Licencia) grants \"una Licencia mundial, sin cobro de regalías, no exclusiva e indefinida\" covering reproduction and incorporation into Collections, the creation and reproduction of Obras Derivadas with a duty to label the change, and the distribution and public performance of the Work and of Obras Derivadas. 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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The licence forbids sublicensing and the record does not say so. \"No podrá otorgar sub-licencias de la Obra.\" 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.","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: 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(d): the Licensee \"no podrá implícita ni tácitamente aseverar ni dar a entender ninguna conexión, auspicio ni respaldo por parte del Autor, Licenciante ni Partes del Reconocimiento\".","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"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 \"Autor\", the \"Licenciante\" and the \"Partes del Reconocimiento\", and a derivative must carry a note identifying the use made of the Work, for example \"El trabajo original fue traducido de inglés a español\". 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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"cc:ShareAlike is a set level duty, which matches the licence: the share alike condition bites on derivative works rather than on a single permission. Section 4(b) accepts this licence, a later version of it with the same licence elements, or a Creative Commons jurisdiction or Unported licence with the same elements. The model cannot express which other licences satisfy the duty, so the record cannot say that a differently ported licence of the same element set will do.","action":"none"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation are quoted from the Spanish 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 (Declaraciones, Exoneracion de Garantia y Responsabilidad) mixes an affirmative warranty with a disclaimer in one short paragraph: \"EL AUTOR GARANTIZA LA AUTORÍA Y ORIGINALIDAD DE LA OBRA, SIN EMBARGO NO CONFIERE NINGUNA GARANTÍA SOBRE LA CALIDAD COMERCIAL DE LA OBRA O SU ADECUACIÓN PARA UN PROPÓSITO EN PARTICULAR.\" The record holds it in dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, which is right as far as the field goes, but the affirmative half of it is invisible to the model. Section 6 (Limitacion de Responsabilidad) sits in dalicc:LiabilityLimitation on its own.","action":"none"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"cc:jurisdiction is bpicounty:Ecuador, which matches the country of the legal code URL https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ec/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. Ecuador is the one port in this review group whose grant does not say \"perpetual\" plainly: Section 3 calls the licence \"indefinida (depende del acuerdo de los contratantes de la Licencia)\", and Section 7 then runs the licence for the duration of the applicable copyright, which is what dalicc:perpetual records.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The licence forbids technological protection measures and the vocabulary has no term for it. Section 4(a): \"el Licenciatario no podrá imponer ninguna medida tecnológica vigente en la Obra que pueda restringir la capacidad de la parte que recibe la Obra por parte del Licenciatario para ejercer los derechos otorgados al receptor\". 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":"Two clauses of the licence body have no vocabulary term. Section 7 (Terminacion): automatic termination on breach, downstream licences survive, the named sections survive. Proposed term: dalicc:terminationOnBreach. Section 8 (Asuntos diversos): every distribution or public performance carries an offer of a licence from the Licensor to the recipient on the same terms. Proposed term: dalicc:downstreamOffer.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"Moral rights have no vocabulary term, in either direction. Ecuador is the only port in this review group that turns moral rights into an operative term binding the licensee. Section 4: \"Los derechos concedidos en la Sección 3 se deben ejercer teniendo en cuenta los Derechos Morales del Autor para objetar cualquier alteración, mutilación o deformación u otra acción despectiva en relación al trabajo, que pudiera resultar perjudicial para el honor o reputación del Autor o de su dignidad como tal en la medida que el Autor no puede renunciar a los Derechos Morales bajo las disposiciones legales aplicables.\" 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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"The royalty collection arrangement has no vocabulary term. Ecuador has a single royalty paragraph rather than the three tier split of the other ports, and it points in opposite directions per element set: in the Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike sets \"el Licenciante renuncia al derecho de recaudar regalías\", in the NonCommercial sets \"el Licenciante se reserva el derecho de recaudar regalias\" for any exercise of the rights granted, with no non commercial carve out at all. The channel is \"una sociedad de recaudaciones que maneje esquemas de licencias voluntarias\"; no society is named. 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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The share alike duty that accepts a later version of the same licence, another jurisdiction port with the same licence elements or, in the German port, a licence declared compatible with Creative Commons, cannot be expressed. Proposed term: a property on the cc:ShareAlike duty, for example dalicc:shareAlikeAccepts.","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 CC-BY-SA-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, while odrl:target still differs by dcmitype:Dataset. 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-SA element set, across all three versions and every jurisdiction the library holds.","action":"none"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"major","field":"dalicc:terminatesOnBreach","description":"The termination clause of this port reads: \"Esta Licencia y los derechos otorgados por esta Licencia terminarán automáticamente si el Licenciatario incumpliera cualquiera de las condiciones de esta Licencia.\" 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 3.0 port: Ecuador (EC)","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 3.0 record; the version difference, 3.0 against 4.0, is therefore part of the port relation and not only the jurisdiction. The 3.0 text differs from 4.0 in substance as well: it prohibits sublicensing expressly, it forbids technological protection measures, it has no thirty day cure period for a breach, and it settles the royalty collection question and the moral rights question per jurisdiction. None of that is visible in the model. This port is a translation as well as a jurisdiction port, so dalicc:translationOf would fit it when the term exists. Nothing in this review is legal advice."}