[Foundation-l] An argument for strong copyleft

[Nikola Smolenski]

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.