[cc-community] Being called a thief for using CC
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Sat Feb 16 08:38:39 EST 2008
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
Miguel Angel Barrera wrote:
> A couple of monts ago we decided to create a different site
> (http://fadd.corank.com) that takes the picture from APOD and copies the
> translations from Observatorio.info <http://Observatorio.info>
> (respecting 100% the by-nc-sa license) but with a different interface,
> and a few different features.
Since you don't seem to be charging for the service or benefiting from
it financially, and you aren't placing any part of the articles under a
different licence, you do seem to be complying with NC-SA and so this
shouldn't be a problem.
> Now this person is not only - we feel - misleading their visitors by
> making them believe that what we're doing is illegal (and possibly
> creating a small herd of people who will assume future cases like this
> one should be treated in the same way), but he is also writing in
> several blogs that he's found a "hole" in the CC license, because he
> released his work under CC so people could republish/reference/etc PARTS
> of their work, but not so people could duplicate all of the translations
> even if all the CC terms are honored.
Has he explained this in detail? He really shouldn't be able to do that
under NC-SA. Please can you forward (a translation of) his exact claim
of how this "hole" works to this list? If he's wrong hopefully people
will be able to say why, if he's right then CC really need to know.
> All we've done is to use the rights the CC license gives us, respecting
> of course the nc-by-sa (we even place a linkable icon of Observatory in
> our welcome page). We tried to explain this person that we feel that his
> view "a piece is ok, the entire work is not" is more consistent with
> copyright content and "fair use" than with Creative Commons, but that
> hasn't changed things a bit.
You can copy the unaltered work under all the main CC licences, that
isn't a special permission that ND adds. Is he assuming that SA is the
opposite of ND? This isn't the case.
- Rob.
More information about the cc-community
mailing list