[cc-community] Freely licensed content question(s)
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Wed Oct 24 12:57:44 EDT 2007
sigmaman wrote:
> Scenario 2) I am building a video that deals with ancient history. I
> am going to use original material I created such as artwork, text and
> voice overs. Along with my material, I would like to incorporate
> several CC SA photos from Flickr, some Opsound music (CC SA) and
> numerous Wikipedia articles (GFDL) that deal with my subject matter.
It is arguable -- although maybe "in court" -- that the video could be
regarded as a "collection" of separable snippets, where each sequence's
license is driven by the source of your content.
Perhaps the framing video with your original content could be under more
restrictive licensing, but the sequences that use free material must be
free-licensed (including any synched sound voice overs, etc).
I do NOT know the best way to tag this kind of licensing, if indeed this
theory makes sense in the first place.
That leaves the biggest problem that of rectifying GFDL and CC licensed
content -- for which the best strategy might be to just ask for
re-licensing wherever possible. As I mentioned, most authors will
probably be okay with that.
Wikipedia *articles* are a little more challenging because they are
community authored (so there's no single person to ask for such
relicensing from). OTOH, you're unlikely to quote whole articles, so
you're very likely back to "fair use" again.
My comment on Revver's default license is in a parallel post.
Cheers,
Terry
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Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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