[cc-community] commentatorship license

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Wed Sep 6 10:59:02 EDT 2006


Hanno Stock wrote:
>  I recently had the idea of licensing some of my photos of a certain
>  event to everyone who covers that event in the press (commercially or
>  non-commercially) but on the other hand I did not want the photos to
>  appear somewhere else out of context.
>
>  Is there already a license that would allow this? If not it might be
>  an idea for a special license, because I think the case is quite
>  common.

AFAIK, you don't really need an explicit license for this -- you just
call it a "press release".  I'm not entirely clear on the details, but
I think that in most jurisdictions this is interpreted as a license
for use by the press.

Cheers,
Terry

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