Thanks for posting this to the mailinglist!
Maybe we should create a page on commons to collect all court decision/court rulings which
are relevant for commons.
Best,
--Steinsplitter
From: andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:04:27 +0000
To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Commons-l] A new derivative/compilation court ruling
Perhaps of interest...
A new (US) district court ruling on the distinction between a
derivative work and a collection in the context of CC-BY-SA licenses -
http://www.technollama.co.uk/us-court-interprets-copyleft-clause-in-creativ…
Looks like they came to the sensible decision - interpreting
'derivative' relatively narrowly. In this case, a CC-BY-SA image was
used for the cover of a book and it was held that the license clearly
did not extend to the rest of the book as a derivative work.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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