[cc-community] creative commons advice
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Sat Jan 3 13:33:13 EST 2009
On Saturday 03 January 2009 11:26:06 Dr. Peter Troxler (Waag Society) wrote:
> 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
Perhaps, if you were an individual making a choice for you own works.
As I understood the question I responded to with that answer, this was rather
from the point of view of a person setting up a site for others to contribute
content to and wanting to have only one license for all of the works on the
entire site.
So my thought was that if the site creator expected the site contributors to
only contribute insubstantial works (like the BY licensed twitter like site)
then BY would do. But if the expectation was that more substantial works were
to be contributed, then many who would contribute BY-SA might choose not to
contribute BY. Since I don't see the reverse being a concern, I suggested
BY-SA in this case.
If, on the other hand, the license choice can be a user by user or work by
work choice rather than a one time choice for the whole site, this does not
necessarily apply.
>
> best
>
> / Peter Troxler
> / Public Project Co-Lead
> / Creative Commons Netherlands
> / www.creativecommons.nl
>
all the best,
drew
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