wiki-lists(a)phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Explaining this to professional content creators
and media companies
leads to exploding heads. Pointing out that giving it all away has
made Wikipedia a top-ten website and must be doing all right from it
isn't enough to convince them ... it goes so much against everything
they think they know about the world.
>> And in turn there are those of us that will not give anything to these
media companies. I'll see a company like News International rot in hell
first.
a properly viral licence will constrain the commercial
publisher with the requirement that any use by him will also render his
new context for that photograph just as available for free use as the
photograph itself.
No it does not. The viral (SA) part of the CC license only applies to
derivatives. It does not apply to collections, it does not apply if
used to illustrate an article or advertising flier, ...