It still isn't the place of a third party to police someone else's copyrights.
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From: Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2009 3:32:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM, <wiki-lists(a)phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Sage Ross wrote:
If a copyleft license is being violated, that is potentially of
concern beyond the two legal parties, since properly using the license
would mean that derivative works are also part of the commons and
available for others to use and adapt.
The problem is that YOU have no knowledge whether a copyleft license is
being violated or not. It is a gross arrogance on your part presume that
because it is CC-BY-SA in one context that all such uses must be CC-BY-SA.
If someone write a piece of music and releases it under a CC-BY-SA
license, they can also allow uses under other conditions. Now assume
that you hear that music in some TV advert is the advert CC-BY-SA? Not
if the creator of the music relicensed it to the advertizer minus the
copyleft requirement. Being an outsider to the agreement between the two
parties you simple do not know.
In many cases it's very obvious. If an image credit says "Sage
Ross/Creative Commons" (with no link or no indication of which CC
license), it's clear that it's not being used properly. If the image
credit says merely "Wikipedia" and you know that the version on
Wikipedia is under a copyleft license, it's again clear.
Yes, there are some situations where you can't know (without asking
the creator) that an image wasn't separately licensed. But there are
a lot of times when you can know.
-Sage
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