On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
I don't want someone to modify it and put a non-free copyright on the derivative of my photograph.
But I don't believe in purity tests either, that seek to dictate the copyright status of work I had no hand in, and whose only connection to my photograph is that they might appear on the same page.
Work that you had no hand in cannot be a derivative of your work, so there's really no question about that. However, if your photograph appears in a newspaper article, then you *did* have a hand in that newspaper article.
Maybe this is a matter of semantics, but if I look at a newspaper I'd say it generally consists of articles which have pictures in them. I wouldn't say that it has articles and pictures which just happen to appear on the same page.