On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:29:38 +0300, Benjamin Esham bdesham@gmail.com wrote:
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?
Luckily, CC licenses are very "clear" on this, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode:
a. "Adaptation" means a work based upon the Work, or upon the Work and other pre-existing works, such as a translation, adaptation, derivative work, arrangement of music or other alterations of a literary or artistic work, or phonogram or performance and includes cinematographic adaptations or any other form in which the Work may be recast, transformed, or adapted including in any form recognizably derived from the original, except that a work that constitutes a Collection will not be considered an Adaptation for the purpose of this License. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Work is a musical work, performance or phonogram, the synchronization of the Work in timed-relation with a moving image ("synching") will be considered an Adaptation for the purpose of this License.
b. "Collection" means a collection of literary or artistic works, such as encyclopedias and anthologies, or performances, phonograms or broadcasts, or other works or subject matter other than works listed in Section 1(f) [this should probably be h, not f] below, which, by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents, constitute intellectual creations, in which the Work is included in its entirety in unmodified form along with one or more other contributions, each constituting separate and independent works in themselves, which together are assembled into a collective whole. A work that constitutes a Collection will not be considered an Adaptation (as defined below) for the purposes of this License.
And then the section 4(b) includes the rules for ShareAlike, limiting ShareAlike only to adaptations, excluding collections.
I have been under the impression that the case which you present is a Collection. If that is not the case, I will rush to change my BY-SA licenses to just BY.