FYI
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: rob@robmyers.org rob@robmyers.org Date: May 9, 2007 1:34 PM Subject: [cc-licenses] The FSF On FDL Derivatives To: cc-licenses@lists.ibiblio.org
(I'm posting this here because of the recent debate about photography.)
The FSF have blogged about their interpretation of the scope of the FDL:
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-05-08-fdl-scope
They support the position that Ben Mako Hill described, where use of an image to illustrate a text creates a derivative. It's well worth a read.
I was particularly interested by this statement:
"In cases like these where the materials complement each other, we believe that the end result is a derivative work."
This contains two useful distinctions. The materials have been chosen to complement each other to form a unit of presumably increased value or greater use rather than just being aggregated. And *the end result* is the derivative work, not the text or the photo, so legal causality isn't broken.
What I am curious about is what exactly this "end result" is (collective work, new multimedia work, or ...?) and how far-reaching this effect is (particularly with regard to e.g. contextual advertising).
- Rob.
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