[cc-community] CC Dragged Into Lawsuit

Nic Suzor nic at suzor.com
Thu Sep 20 20:48:12 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 20:24 -0400, drew Roberts wrote:
> I mean, say you take a street scene with lots of people in it. You put it 
> under a BY license. Do you need to get clearances from hundreds of people? O 
> nthe off chance someone wants to crop out a face and use the image as an 
> endorsement?

No, this is obviously not a workable solution. But I am wary of
statements which could be seen to be misleading or deceptive. An
argument could be raised (and I'm not saying that it would necessarily
be correct) that the photographer, by saying "you can use this image
commercially", is not being sufficiently clear that the permission only
applies to copyright.

> I would like to see better, honest, tutorials for photographers on the 
> interaction of all of this as it relates to Free works at some point.

I think this is critical. However, I also think that the licence deeds
should clearly state that the licence applies only to copyright owned by
the licensor, and does not affect (a) other copyright which may be
embodied in the work, and (b) rights other than copyright. At the
moment, we mention moral rights but nothing else.

nic.
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