[cc-community] A question about attribution

Claude Almansi claude.almansi at bluewin.ch
Tue Jul 14 02:12:14 EDT 2009


Hi Gautam

First, congratulations on the delightful Pratham Books.

Re your question, not a legal answer, but one based on my past
experience writing for publishers back when books were paper-only.

Hence given:

(...)
>
> X is the illustrator
> Y is the author
>
> X and Y have assigned copyright to us, Z.

If you want to release the book under a CC license, you could probably have:

Copyright notice
Text: Y
Illustrations: X
copyright: Z
This book is released under a .... CC license

But it would be simpler for users if the illustrator and author of the
text did not assign the copyright to you, but let you use their work.
Then you could have:

Text: © Y
Illustrations: © X
Book setting (not sure how you say that in English: "maquette" in French): ©Z
This book is released under a .... CC license

Best

Claude


>
> Now I want to release the composite work of X and Y under a CC license
> but would like to have X and Y attributed as well.
>
> How would you suggest I do this?:
>
> 1. Illustrator X, Copyright Owner Z
>
> Does this work?
>
> Also, assuming I release a work for which I own the copyright under a
> CC license, it incorrect to state that I still own the copyright? Is
> it incompatible to have a notice that states:
>
> This work is released under a CC-BY license. The copyright vests with Z?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam


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