[cc-community] can cc-by work be re-used on Google Knol?
Bennett Haselton
bennett at peacefire.org
Sun Aug 10 20:32:19 EDT 2008
Google Knol currently lets you choose CC-BY as one of the licensing
options for a new knol that you publish. Can you incorporate CC-BY
works written by other people, into your own knol, if you choose
CC-BY as your own publishing option, and give attribution to the
author of the base work?
At first it would seem the answer is 'Yes', since you can use someone
else's CC-BY work in your own CC-BY work as long as you give them
attribution. However, there's a possible hiccup -- Knol's TOS section 8:
http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/si57lahl1w25/12#
also grants Google the right to "modify" and "create derivative works
based on" the work that you submit. Could this potentially include
"derivative works" that take out the attribution to the original
author? And hence, would you not be allowed to use someone else's
CC-BY work on Knol, because you'd be granting Google the right to
create derivative works that take out the attribution, which you're
not allowed to do?
On the other hand, perhaps "derivative works" are not deemed to
include works that take out the attribution to the original author --
in which case you could include someone else's CC-BY work in a Knol
article as long as you give the required attribution.
-Bennett
bennett at peacefire.org http://www.peacefire.org
(425) 497 9002
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