Erik Moeller wrote:
Jimmy-
As to why CC-ND (=No derivs) is bad, well, it's not GNU free. The right to make derivative works is an important right. It might be viewed by some as less important in the context of a photo or text, as opposed to software code, but I personally don't think so. I think it's very important in our medium.
Maybe, but there's another side. I've just tried to get permission to use some example webcomics on Wikipedia in the respective articles. I received one positive and three negative replies. The main problem was that people are worried about third parties modifying their work.
And I can understand that concern. If you have an example comic which features the main characters, someone else can easily rip off these characters and create their "fork" of the strip, even market it commercially, as long as it's copylefted.
Can't they just trademark the characters to prevent that?
-Mark