David Gerard wrote:
Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
First of all, there is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reuse. If you still have any questions, feel free to let us know! We are always happy to help, and it will also help us improving the reuse page.
In particular, if any aspect of that page is less than clear, please ask for more detail - that page was written specifically to answer questions like yours.
I have a question about the Creative Commons ShareAlike licenses. (I thought I had become fairly knowledgeable about copyright since becoming involved in Wikipedia, but maybe not ;-)) Does the ShareAlike requirement apply for *every* reuse of the image, or just for the creation of derivative works? I had always been under the impression that, for example, a website using a CC-SA image would have to be CC-SA itself. Is it the case that the sharing alike would apply only to the image?
Of course, the definition of what exactly constitutes a "derivative work" is another issue entirely, but it seems I may have been mistaken about one of the fundamental principles of the CC licenses. Can someone clear this up for me? (I'd be more than happy to add such a clarification to [[Commons:Reuse]].)