{"id":"CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike30Greece","title":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Greece","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr/legalcode","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The record models the BY-NC-SA element set of the Creative Commons 3.0 port for Greece and the deontic model is correct: the NonCommercial element prohibits cc:CommercialUse, the ShareAlike element carries a cc:ShareAlike duty, the attribution and notice duties hang on the acts that make the work public, and every permission follows from the grant section of the port. The legal text was read in Greek, and the permissions, prohibitions and duties were checked against its grant and restriction sections and against the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0. Corrections applied: dct:source, dct:title, odrl:target. 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 the port states the canonical URL of the licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr/, 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-sa/3.0/gr/> ;"},{"rubric":1,"severity":"info","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"The SPDX licence list defines no identifier for this port. The id that the legal code URL implies, CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0-GR, is not on the list, so none was invented. Only four records of this review group can take an SPDX identifier: CC-BY-3.0-AU, CC-BY-3.0-AT, CC-BY-3.0-US and CC-BY-SA-3.0-AT.","action":"none"},{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"dct:title","description":"The dct:title literal ended in a space, which the library list and the search index carry through. The trailing space was removed. The header comment of the file keeps the original wording, as in the rest of the library.","action":"applied","change":"dct:title \"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Greece\"@en ;"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:target","description":"The record targeted dalicc:CreativeWork alone, while the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 targets dalicc:CreativeWork and dcmitype:Dataset. This port names a database as licensed subject matter in its own text: clause 3(e), in English rendering, grants the right \"to make any use of a substantial part of the contents of a database, in the case where the licensed subject matter is a database\", and clause 3 adds that where the Licensor holds the sui generis right of the database maker under Greek copyright law implementing Directive 96/9/EC, the Licensor waives that right. Clause 4(e) exempts the parts covered only by the sui generis right from the restrictions. Since the text is explicit, dcmitype:Dataset was added here rather than left to the library wide decision that covers the ports whose text says nothing about databases.","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. Clause 3, in English rendering: \"the Licensor grants You a worldwide, royalty free (for copyright and neighbouring rights), non-exclusive, perpetual licence to exercise the rights in the licensed subject matter as specified below\". The grant covers reproduce the subject matter, incorporate it into Collective Works and reproduce it as incorporated, create and reproduce Derivative Works with a clear statement of the changes made, distribute copies of and communicate to the public the subject matter including as incorporated, distribute and communicate Derivative Works, and make any use of a substantial part of the contents of a database where the licensed subject matter is a database. The record models this as odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:display, odrl:present, odrl:modify, odrl:derive, cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks.","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The record permits dalicc:chargeDistributionFee while prohibiting cc:CommercialUse. Clause 4(c), in English rendering: you may not exercise the rights granted under clause 3 in a way that is primarily aimed at commercial exploitation or at private monetary reward; exchange by digital file sharing without payment is excluded. 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 commercial advantage test, but the statement sits uneasily next to the prohibition. The same statement is in the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 and in all 145 NonCommercial records 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. Clause 4(a), in English rendering: \"You may not grant a licence for the further exploitation of the licensed subject matter.\" 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":"cc:CommercialUse is prohibited, which the NonCommercial clause states directly. Clause 4(c), in English rendering: you may not exercise the rights granted under clause 3 in a way that is primarily aimed at commercial exploitation or at private monetary reward; exchange by digital file sharing without payment is excluded. dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited, which the licence supports: the licensee may offer the work only under the terms of this licence and may not offer or impose terms that alter or restrict it. dalicc:promote is prohibited, which rests on the reservation of all rights not expressly granted and on the trademark paragraph of the Creative Commons notice around the licence, not on a clause of the licence body.","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The attribution and notice duties are present and supported. Clause 4(d), in English rendering, requires all copyright information to be kept intact and, in a manner reasonable to the medium, the name or pseudonym of the First Creator (Original Rights Holder) or of the holder of neighbouring rights, or of the parties the Licensor designates, the title of the subject matter, the Uniform Resource Identifier the Licensor specifies, and, for a Derivative Work, a credit identifying the use made of the subject matter. 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-NC-SA-4.0.","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The share-alike clause of the 3.0 ports is wider than a flat prohibition of relicensing: clause 4(b), in English rendering: a Derivative Work may be distributed or publicly performed only under this Licence, a later version of it with the same licence elements, or a Creative Commons licence that is unported or adapted to another legal system and carries the same elements (\"Applicable Licence\"). 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, the Unported licence or another port with the same elements is an acceptable outgoing licence. The 4.0 International parent 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 verbatim from the Greek text of this port and not from the English Unported version, and they match the disclaimer section and the limitation of liability section of the legal code. Each field holds its own clause, with no overlap between the two.","action":"none"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The record has no dalicc:additionalClauses, so the clauses the ODRL policy cannot carry, the reservation of unnamed rights, the downstream offer to recipients, the severability, waiver and entire agreement paragraphs and the termination rule, are not visible in the record at all. The whole Creative Commons family is modelled this way.","action":"none"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"cc:jurisdiction is bpicounty:Greece, which matches the country of the legal code URL, and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, which matches a grant for the duration of copyright. On the governing law: the Greek port has no choice of law clause. It names Greek copyright law and Directive 96/9/EC in its definitions and in the database clause, but clause 8 (General) carries only the downstream offer, severability, waiver and entire agreement paragraphs. Note that the jurisdiction field records the legal home of the port, not a territorial limit on the grant: the grant itself is worldwide.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The licence forbids technological protection measures and the vocabulary has no term for it. Clause 4(a), in English rendering: in any distribution or public presentation of the subject matter you may not use any technological measure that restricts the recipient in exercising the rights granted under this Licence. 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, and the survival of the definitions, the disclaimer, the limitation of liability and the miscellaneous sections, have no vocabulary term. Proposed term: dalicc:terminationOnBreach. The downstream offer, under which every recipient of the work or of an adaptation receives a licence directly from the licensor on the same terms, has none either. Proposed term: dalicc:downstreamOffer.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"The moral rights clause of this port is not expressible. Clause 4(g), in English rendering: \"all powers of the moral right remain unaffected to the extent that they are provided for by the applicable law and are not waivable.\" Greek copyright law treats the moral right as inalienable, so the clause leaves it entirely to the statute. Proposed terms: dalicc:moralRightsRestriction and dalicc:moralRightsNonAssertion, so that the direction of the clause can be recorded.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"The royalty collection arrangement is not expressible. Clause 4(f), in English rendering: under compulsory licensing schemes that cannot be waived the Licensor keeps the right to collect royalties for commercial and non-commercial use, and for collecting societies the Licensor waives the right for non-commercial uses and retains it for commercial uses. Proposed term: dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved, with a value saying whether the claim is reserved or waived and for which kind of use. This matters to a user of the model, because a licence that reads as royalty free can still leave a collecting society claim standing.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check with the 41 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-ShareAlike 4.0 International. The deontic model of this record is identical to the parent CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0, statement for statement: the same permissions with the same duties, the same prohibitions and the same set level duties. The odrl:target now agrees with the parent as well. What differs is the jurisdiction, the language of the legal text and 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 moral rights clause and the royalty collection arrangements. The compatibility checker cannot tell this record from the other records of the BY-NC-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":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: clause 3(e), in the English rendering the review quotes, grants the right \"to make any use of a substantial part of the contents of a database, in the case where the licensed subject matter is a database\", and clause 3 adds that the Licensor waives the sui generis right of the database maker under Greek copyright law implementing Directive 96/9/EC, and clause 4(e) exempts the parts covered only by the sui generis right from the restrictions. 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-SA-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. The cc:ShareAlike duty of this record sits at the level of the odrl:Set and still reaches this permission in the model; the term that would take the conditions off the database layer does not exist, and the gap finding of this review still records that. 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: \"Αυτή η Άδεια και τα παρεχόμενα μ’ αυτήν δικαιώματα καταγγέλλονται αυτόματα με την παράβαση εκ μέρους Σας των όρων της Άδειας αυτής.\" 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: Greece (GR)","port_of":"CC-BY-NC-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, it settles the royalty collection question per jurisdiction, and its share-alike clause expressly accepts a later version, the Unported licence or another port with the same licence elements. None of that is visible in the model. Nothing in this review is legal advice."}