{"id":"CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialNoderivs30Estonia","title":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Estonia","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ee/legalcode","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The record models the BY-NC-ND element set of the Creative Commons 3.0 port for Estonia and it does so correctly: the NonCommercial element prohibits cc:CommercialUse, the NoDerivatives element prohibits odrl:derive, 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 Estonian. 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-nc-nd/3.0/ee/, 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-nc-nd/3.0/ee/> ;"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:target","description":"The record targeted dalicc:CreativeWork only, while the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-ND-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. The Estonian port is explicit twice over. Section 1 counts a database inside the licensed work: \"Litsentsi tähenduses on Teoseks ka Teose esitus, fonogramm, raadio- ja televisioonisaade, filmi esmasalvestus ja andmebaas selles ulatuses, millises see on kaitstud Eesti autoriõiguse seadusega.\" Section 3 then disposes of the sui generis right: \"Kui Litsentsiandja omab Eesti autoriõiguse seaduse kohaselt, millega on Eesti õiguskorda üle võetud Euroopa Parlamendi ja nõukogu direktiiv 96/9/EÜ, 11. märts 1996, andmebaaside õiguskaitse kohta, sui generis andmebaasi tegija õigusi, loobub Litsentsiandja käesolevaga sellistest õigustest.\" Section 4(e) adds that the restrictions of 4(a) to 4(d) do not apply to those database maker rights so far as Estonian law allows them to be limited. 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. Section 3 grants \"ülemaailmse, tasuta, tähtajatu (autoriõiguse ja autoriõigusega kaasnevate õiguste kaitse kehtivuse tähtaja piirides) lihtlitsentsi\", a worldwide, free, perpetual non exclusive licence for the term of copyright and neighbouring rights. It covers reproduction, incorporation into collections, and distribution and public performance of the work including as incorporated in collections. The record models this as odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:display, odrl:present, plus odrl:modify and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, which rest on the technical modification sentence of the grant: Section 3: \"Eelnimetatud oigused holmavad oigust teha selliseid muudatusi, mis on tehniliselt vajalikud teostamaks oigusi muudes meediumites ja formaatides.\" In this NoDerivatives set the grant list stops short of any right to adapt, which is why the record prohibits odrl:derive while still permitting odrl:modify: the only modification allowed is the one the grant calls technically necessary. The 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 models it in exactly the same way.","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The record permits dalicc:chargeDistributionFee while prohibiting cc:CommercialUse. Section 4(c): \"Te ei või punktis 3 antud õigusi teostada viisil, mille peamiseks eesmärgiks on rahalise või muu majandusliku kasu saamine\", with the file sharing carve out that follows it, which in the Estonian port additionally requires the file sharing to be lawful. The vocabulary defines dalicc:chargeDistributionFee as a fee covering the act of providing the work to a third party, so a pure cost recovery fee is arguable under the primary purpose test, but the statement sits uneasily next to the prohibition. The same statement is in the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 and in every NonCommercial record of the library, so removing it is one library wide decision, not a defect of this port.","action":"proposed","change":"remove:\n    odrl:permission [ a odrl:Permission ;\n            odrl:action dalicc:chargeDistributionFee ]"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The licence forbids sublicensing and the record does not say so. Section 4(a): \"Te ei tohi Teost all-litsentsida.\" 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: Section 4(a): \"Te ei või kehtestada Teosele tingimusi, mis kitsendavad Litsentsi tingimusi või Teose saaja võimet teostada Litsentsi alusel Teosele saadud õigusi.\" dalicc:promote is prohibited, which rests on section 4(d) itself, which is the 3.0 no endorsement clause: \"Te ei või seeläbi vihjamisi ega selgesõnaliselt viidata mis tahes seosele Teie või Teie poolt Teose kasutamise ning vastavalt Algse Autori, Litsentsiandja ja/või Viidatud isikute vahel ega viimaste toetusele, ilma nende eelneva selgelt väljendatud kirjaliku loata.\" Version 3.0 therefore supports dalicc:promote in the licence body, which version 2.0 does not. cc:CommercialUse is prohibited, which the NonCommercial element of this set states directly. odrl:derive is prohibited, which follows from a grant that never lists a right to adapt the work; the NoDerivatives element is expressed by the absence of the derivative right rather than by a separate prohibition in the text.","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The attribution and notice duties are present and supported. Section 4(a) requires a copy of the licence or its Uniform Resource Identifier with every copy distributed or publicly performed, and that all notices referring to the licence and to the exclusion of warranties be kept intact. Credit is owed to the \"Algne Autor\" or to the \"Viidatud isikud\" the licensor names, with the title of the work and the URI where reasonably applicable; section 1 counts the performer, the phonogram producer, the audiovisual producer, the broadcasting organisation and the maker of a database as original authors for the purposes of the licence, so the attribution duty reaches the neighbouring rights holders as well. Section 4(d) closes with the no endorsement sentence.. The duties hang on odrl:distribute and odrl:modify, which matches the licence, since they are triggered by making the work public rather than by private use; odrl:derive is prohibited in this NoDerivatives set, so the duties reach only distribution and the technically necessary modification.","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The record hangs dalicc:modificationNotice on odrl:modify, and this NoDerivatives text has no clause to support it: because the grant never reaches an adaptation, the port carries no requirement to mark changes and no derivative credit sentence at all, unlike the other five element sets of the same port. The only modification the licence allows is the technically necessary one, which needs no notice. The 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 carries exactly the same statement, so this is a family wide modelling choice rather than a defect of this port, and removing it would split the NoDerivatives family. It does not change the compatibility outcome, since the duty is attached to a permission the licence grants only for format shifting.","action":"none"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation are quoted from the Estonian text of this port and not from the English unported version, and each field holds its own clause. Section 5 (Garantii mitteandmine) and section 6 (Vastutuse piiramine) are separate sections and the record keeps them apart: dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer holds section 5 and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation holds section 6, both quoted verbatim in Estonian and in the upper case of the original. The Estonian limitation of liability spells out the heads of damage (direct loss, lost profit, and non material damage including physical and mental suffering) instead of the incidental and consequential damages list of the English text.","action":"none"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:LiabilityLimitation","description":"dalicc:LiabilityLimitation ends with a closing parenthesis that matches the opening \"(SEALHULGAS\" of the sentence. Five of the six Estonian legal code pages drop that parenthesis and only the Attribution 3.0 Estonia page prints it, so the quote follows the one page that is typographically complete. Left untouched.","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. Section 7 ends the licence automatically on any breach, keeps the licences of downstream recipients of derivative works and collections alive and lets sections 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 survive; section 8 makes the licensor grant every recipient 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:Estonia, which matches the country of the legal code URL https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ee/legalcode, and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, which matches a grant made for the duration of copyright. The Estonian 3.0 port has no choice of law clause: section 8 ends with the severability, waiver and entire agreement paragraphs, and the only reference to Estonian law in the whole text sits inside the database rights clause of section 3. cc:jurisdiction bpicounty:Estonia therefore records the port, not a forum chosen by the text.","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): \"Teose levitamisel või avalikul esitamisel ei või Te lisada Teosele mis tahes tehnilisi kaitsemeetmeid, mis kitsendavad Teilt Teose saaja võimet teostada Litsentsi alusel Teosele saadud õigusi.\" 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. Section 7 ends the licence automatically on any breach, keeps the licences of downstream recipients of derivative works and collections alive and lets sections 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 survive; section 8 makes the licensor grant every recipient a licence on the same terms. Proposed terms: dalicc:terminationOnBreach and dalicc:downstreamOffer.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"Section 4 closes by licensing the licensor's own personal rights, which no other port in this review group does: \"Käesolevaga antakse Litsentsiandja isiklike õiguste osas nii laiaulatuslik litsents, kui see on lubatud kohaldatava siseriikliku õiguse kohaselt, et võimaldada Teil mõistlikult kasutada Teile käesoleva Litsentsi punktis 3 antud õigusi. Käesolevaga ei anta Teile Litsentsiandja isiklike õiguste suhtes litsentsi muuks otstarbeks.\" It binds the licensor rather than restricting the licensee, as the Korean and Japanese ports do, but it goes further than they do by granting a licence instead of a covenant not to assert. 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":"gap","field":"record","description":"Section 4(f) settles royalty collection in three parts and, unlike the Costa Rican port of the same version, follows the 3.0 Unported position. Non waivable statutory schemes: the licensor keeps the exclusive right to collect. Waivable statutory schemes: in the Attribution, Attribution-ShareAlike and Attribution-NoDerivatives sets the licensor waives (\"loobub Litsentsiandja ainuoigusest saada Teilt autoritasu Litsentsi alusel antud oiguste mis tahes kasutamise eest\"), and in the NonCommercial sets the licensor keeps the right for commercial use and waives it otherwise. Voluntary schemes: the same split, with the collecting society (\"kollektiivse esindamise organisatsioon\") named as the channel. The vocabulary has no term for it. Proposed term: dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved, with a companion for the waiver.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"The waiver of the sui generis database maker rights, and the disapplication of the restrictions of sections 4(a) to 4(d) to those rights, have no vocabulary term. Adding dcmitype:Dataset to odrl:target says that a dataset may be licensed under this record, but it cannot say that the licensor gives up the database right itself, which makes the Estonian port more permissive for datasets than any other record of the family. Proposed term: dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRightsWaived.","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-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 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 3.0 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-NC-ND element set, across all three versions and every jurisdiction the library holds.","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"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 database inside the licensed work, \"Litsentsi tähenduses on Teoseks ka Teose esitus, fonogramm, raadio- ja televisioonisaade, filmi esmasalvestus ja andmebaas selles ulatuses, millises see on kaitstud Eesti autoriõiguse seadusega.\", and Section 3 disposes of the sui generis right, \"Kui Litsentsiandja omab Eesti autoriõiguse seaduse kohaselt, millega on Eesti õiguskorda üle võetud Euroopa Parlamendi ja nõukogu direktiiv 96/9/EÜ, 11. märts 1996, andmebaaside õiguskaitse kohta, sui generis andmebaasi tegija õigusi, loobub Litsentsiandja käesolevaga sellistest õigustest.\", and Section 4(e) adds that the restrictions of 4(a) to 4(d) do not apply to those database maker rights so far as Estonian law allows them to be limited. 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-NC-ND-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.","action":"applied","change":"odrl:permission [ a odrl:Permission ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRights ] ;"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"major","field":"dalicc:terminatesOnBreach","description":"The termination clause of this port reads: \"Litsents ja selle alusel antud õigused lõpevad automaatselt Litsentsi tingimuse mis tahes rikkumise korral Teie poolt.\" 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: Estonia (EE)","port_of":"CC-BY-NC-ND-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 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."}