Er, I believe if your photo is under CC-BY it will remain free no matter what. Other's derivatives may not, but YOUR photo will remain free.
-Dan On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:53 PM, Pharos wrote:
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/04/2008, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
I dislike CC-BY for the same reason that others dislike CC-BY. If I take a photograph, I want my photograph (and its modifications) to remain free.
What seems wrong to me is the idea that we require a "purity test" for re-users, so that I can demand the book that my photograph is published in is also free. Now, I think it's a morally right thing for books to be free. But maybe I have other moral opinions too.
Maybe I think all books should be free, and refuse my photographs to any publisher that has -any- non-free books in its catalog.
Or maybe I think printing presses should all have good working conditions for employees, and would refuse my photographs to publishers that go against these principles.
These are all ideals that many of us support, but how are they related to my copyright on my photograph?
And how does tying in purity tests encourage re-use in the real world?
The perfect, we must recognize, can very much be the enemy of the good.
Thanks, Pharos
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