[Foundation-l] Re: Copyright issues...walking on thin ice
Delirium
delirium at hackish.org
Tue Aug 17 00:31:26 UTC 2004
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
>With images, the separate authorship and the independence of the work
>is transparently obvious. The text is not derived from the image, nor
>is the image derived from the text. No one modifies GNU FDL text and
>turns it into an image, or vice-versa. (Barring hypothetical edge
>cases that are beyond the scope of this discussion.)
>
>
I don't think the edge cases are that infrequent, but IANAL of course.
For example, if I were to have a collection of GFDL'd pictures of
flowers, and you took that collection of flowers and used them to
publish an illustrated book of flowers, I would consider your book,
including its textual content, a derived work of my collection of images.
-Mark
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