[cc-community] CC and picture rights in a physics textbook

Gavin Baker gavin at gavinbaker.com
Sun Dec 2 13:39:18 EST 2007


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Christoph Schiller wrote:
> Thank you for the answers about my previous question.
> In my free physics text I have included many photographs;
> I have permission from the copyright holders
> to use them in a freely downloadable pdf.
> The copyright holder's name and copyright is included
> below each picture.
> 
> The rest of the 1500 pages is copyright by myself.
> Is is ok to put the whole text under a CC licence,
> or do I need to restrict the licence to the non-picture part,
> in order to protect the copyright holders of the
> pictures as much as possible?
> 
> Christoph           www.motionmountain.eu

Christoph,

You are under no obligation to "protect" the copyright holders of the
pictures. However, you can't license what you don't own.

If you include photographs which are not under a CC license, you can't
place them under a CC license without the rightsholders' permission. You
can still use the photos in your work, but should indicate that they are
not subject to the CC license. For instance, Creative Commons uses the
following statement on their Web site: "Except where otherwise noted,
this work is available under this license".

If you like, you could also contact the rightsholders and ask permission
to use their work under a CC license. Alternatively, you could search
for replacement images which are CC-licensed. If you want help doing
either of these, just ask again and the list can provide some helpful links.

Regards,
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Gavin Baker
http://www.gavinbaker.com/
gavin at gavinbaker.com
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