[cc-community] Does BY-SA extend to a newspaper?

Lawrence Lessig lessig at pobox.com
Wed Apr 18 01:31:34 EDT 2007


On Apr 15, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:

> <quote who="rob at robmyers.org" date="Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:02:50PM  
> +0100">
>> The GFDL seems to define both texts and images as "documents" and
>> replace the concept of derivation with the concepts of modification
>> and combination. The reason that photographs would work as expected
>> under the GFDL would be because it defines a modified version as:
>>
>> "... any work containing the Document or a portion of it, either
>> copied verbatim, or with modifications and/or translated into another
>> language."
>>
>> But this crucially assumes that an article illustrated by a photo
>> constitutes a "work". From the discussion of using photography for
>> illustration I'm not sure that it does. If it doesn't, it might be  
>> the
>> case that you can just use the photograph under the GFDL's unmodified
>> copying permission, which is how you can use a photo as an
>> illustration under BY_SA.
>
> AIUI, the FSF seems to have taken the position that it does. You're  
> free
> to disagree and take some one to court but you're going to have argue
> against the GFDL authors about what they meant (despite the fact that
> its been clarified in public).
>

This has not been FSF's policy position.


> Apologies I'm confusing this with something else. I don't recall the
> details.
>
> Regards,
> Mako
>
>
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>
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