On Monday 07 April 2008 15:00:20 Anthony wrote:
We have two independent works, an article and a photo,
and we have a
newspaper article which is, at least in my opinion, a derivative of
both works. Now I agree that it's unrealistic to expect Andrew to
give away his copyright. He probably makes a living writing newspaper
articles. On the other hand, most Bill's would find it unfair that
Carrie gets to profit of his work without giving anything in return.
This is the reason the Noncommercial-only license (which I dislike) is
so popular.
But there's a simple solution. Carrie can simply buy a license from
Bill to use the photo in her newspaper article.
For those Bill's who don't mind Carrie's using their work in this way,
there's always CC-BY or some other non-copylefted free license.
As a free content creator, I have to say that this situation would not be
satisfactory for me.
First, I don't think that my work deserves to influence other, unrelated work;
especially as I personally do employ fair use when I can and don't think that
I should request more stringent criteria in regard to my work.
Second, I don't want to release my work under CC-BY because I do want
enhancements to my work to be freely reusable.
Third, because I have had experiences with people wanting to use free contents
in their works; even GFDL was too much, and so would this requirement be.