[cc-community] CC Dragged Into Lawsuit
Joichi Ito
jito at neoteny.com
Sat Sep 22 19:29:12 EDT 2007
On Sep 23, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Joichi Ito wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:53:02 +0900
>> From: Joichi Ito <jito at neoteny.com>
>> Reply-To: cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org
>> To: cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: Re: [cc-community] CC Dragged Into Lawsuit
>>
>> For illustration purposes, lets take another real example. I was
>> writing a wikipedia entry for a person. I asked her if she had a
>> photo of herself. She said that a photographer she knew had taken
>> one. I then had to negotiate with the photographer to release the
>> photo under a CC-BY license. I had to explain that he would be giving
>> anyone the right to use the photograph commercially. Basically, I had
>> to negotiate the commercial copyright rights with the photographer. A
>> photograph, as you all know, owned by the photographer and the the
Oops. This should be "The copyright of the photograph is owned by the
photographer and not the subject".
And my point is, that for the subject to have free use of a
photograph of themselves, they would need the photographer to license
it under a CC-BY or equivalent.
>> subject. CC is about copyright. Anyway, now the photo is on
>> wikipedia. CC BY basically means that the photographer has given us
>> his/her copyright and it can now be used by wikipedia or the subject
>> for commercial use.
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