[Foundation-l] Creative Commons CC-BY-SA Draft Statement of Intent

[Dan Rosenthal]

Er, I believe if your photo is under CC-BY it will remain free no  
matter what. Other's derivatives may not, but YOUR photo will remain  
free.

-Dan
On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:53 PM, Pharos wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Brianna Laugher
> <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 07/04/2008, Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>
> I dislike CC-BY for the same reason that others dislike CC-BY.  If I
> take a photograph, I want my photograph (and its modifications) to
> remain free.
>
> What seems wrong to me is the idea that we require a "purity test" for
> re-users, so that I can demand the book that my photograph is
> published in is also free.  Now, I think it's a morally right thing
> for books to be free.  But maybe I have other moral opinions too.
>
> Maybe I think all books should be free, and refuse my photographs to
> any publisher that has -any- non-free books in its catalog.
>
> Or maybe I think printing presses should all have good working
> conditions for employees, and would refuse my photographs to
> publishers that go against these principles.
>
> These are all ideals that many of us support, but how are they related
> to my copyright on my photograph?
>
> And how does tying in purity tests encourage re-use in the real world?
>
> The perfect, we must recognize, can very much be the enemy of the  
> good.
>
> Thanks,
> Pharos
>
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