[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Attribution and Relicensing

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Delirium wrote:
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
>   
>> Erik Moeller wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> * For pictures, sound files, etc., there is often just a single
>>> author. 
>>>     
>>>       
>> This is of course very far from the truth. If you did
>> create the media file from your very own brain-pan,
>> yes, this would be accurate, but to say that that this
>> is "often" the case, is somewhat quizzical to say the
>> least.
>>   
>>     
>
> I can see that for music---there's often songwriting, performance, etc. 
> copyrights. But for photographs I would think it's not only "often" the 
> case, but "usually" the case, that there is a single author, the 
> photographer. The only common exceptions I can think of are photographs 
> of copyrighted works, which have the copyright of the work being 
> photographed attached to them also. There's also the relatively rare 
> case of derivative works of free-licensed photographs, where the editing 
> is creative enough to qualify for an independent copyright (i.e. not 
> just resizing or applying a Photoshop filter).
>
>   

First of all, even though you grant my thesis in terms of
music, that is still not even a major segment of sound
files, though perhaps the segment with the highest
profile in terms of intellectual property rights contentiousness.


But in terms of pictures, photographs is a very very minor
segment indeed. Discussing the matter solely in terms
of photographs is very diversionary.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen