Brianna Laugher wrote:
[...]
I just don't consider an article that uses a
photograph of mine as
illustration to be a a derivative of my work.
I don't want an article, blog or book author to have to license their
whole text under CC-BY-SA just because they use my image.
HOWEVER, I do want them to be obliged to make explicit the license of
my work, that is offer it to others under the same conditions. My
work, not theirs. That is how I think "weak copyleft" differs from
CC-BY or PD.
If fully agree - and I think many people actually already assume that this is
how it works for images (or at least, how it should work). They actually want
their stuff to be used in books, newspapers, etc, without requiring the whole
shebang to be put under a free license (which would be both, unreasonable and
unrealistic).
It would be very good to have this type of use addressed explicitly, and to be
able to choose between an as-viral-as-possible license, and more moderate
share-alike-but-use-anywhere license. For my own work, I would be fine with the
latter, just as I'm fine with releasing software under the LGPL.
-- Daniel