[Foundation-l] Fwd: Share-Alike with images

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Sun Feb 11 00:41:28 UTC 2007


Stephanie Daugherty wrote:

>IANAL, but this shouldn't be an issue except possibly in print, because 
>unlike text, images are a single file that will at most be reuploaded, 
>and the only thing that would be a "derivative work" would be another 
>image based on the original one. Therefore, the text of an article using 
>CC-BY-SA images wouldn't have to be covered under that license, but 
>anywhere where the image wasn't a discrete component (ie, print, or any 
>format that distributes the entire pages as images (PDF?) it might apply.
>  
>
That is one possible interpretation of the current license, but I'm 
responding to Erik's proposal that the cc-by-sa license be changed to 
explicitly say that aggregating an image with text makes the resulting 
illustrated text a derivative work of the image.

-Mark




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