[WikiEN-l] When Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 license makes sense

[Justin Cormack]

On 14 Mar 2006, at 10:21, guru brahma wrote:

> Sometime back, there was a discussion about the unusual license of  
> http://www.panopedia.org/index.php/Panopedia. Within the context of  
> Wikipedia, I was wondering if this license makes any sense at all.  
> I think there are some instances where this MAY make sense. For  
> example, images tagged as GFDL-self could be tagged this way. If I  
> make an image, that is, take a photograph of a leader or an actor I  
> adore and do not want it to be photoshopped into some unknown  
> monstrosity, I would be more comfortable in using Creative Commons  
> Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 license. The same would apply to personal  
> images that I upload on to my userpage. The last thing I want to  
> see in my image my moustache disappear or a beard appear ;). Any  
> thoughts which other areas this admittedly over-restrictive license  
> can be used if at all allowed on wikipedia?

Its not clear that you could even resize a CC-ND image under the  
license...

Most countries have other means of protection if someone uses an  
image of you for
things that are problematic, regardless of copyright.

Justinc