[cc-community] creative commons advice

Dr. Peter Troxler (Waag Society) peter at waag.org
Sat Jan 3 11:26:06 EST 2009


On 31 dec 2008, at 02:23, drew Roberts wrote:

> My thoughts would be BY if you expect the content to be throwaway in  
> nature or
> BY-SA if you expect the content to be more substantial. A lot of us  
> are
> unlikely to use BY for substantial works. Or have BY and BY-SA us user
> profile options.

Drew, I think you are adding an interpretation of BY / BY-SA here  
which I'd love you to expand on:

BY = throwaway
BY-SA = (more) substantial

For me the one thing that BY-SA actually adds to the BY license is the  
viral element or notion of commons, i.e. that a work remains in the  
realm of the commons (a bit like the difference between BSD and GPL).

So am I right understanding that your interpretation has to be read  
with a copyleft background?

If so, could then your advice be rephrased as:

BY if you intend the content to be reused in copyright and copyleft  
environments
BY-SA if you intend the content to be reused in copyleft environments  
only

best

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