[cc-community] permission coverage
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Fri Aug 18 13:40:03 EDT 2006
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 16:09 -0700, Ricardo Velasco wrote:
> We have a document covered under this license
> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/). Currently we are
> seeking permission to use certain images in said document. My
> question is, does the permission given to us also cover those who
> change it? In other words does the permission cover any and all
> permutations of the document?
>
>
> My concern is that often permission is granted for a document which is
> for educational use, which this document is, but that same document
> could potentially be changed by another user into something not for
> education use.
I am not a lawyer, but my guess is that if you only have permission to
use the images for educational use you could not reasonably offer them
under a BY-NC license, which does not preclude non-educational uses so
long as they are not for commercial advantage.
You could offer your original content under BY-NC (the text only, I
guess) or you could find alternative images that are licensed under BY
or BY-NC. There are millions available via
http://flickr.com/creativecommons
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