[cc-community] Children's Book Illustrations under a CC-BY License

Gautam John gautam at prathambooks.org
Mon Jun 15 09:52:01 EDT 2009


Hi Gisle:

> Maybe I was too categorical.  The illustrations are nice, but
> they're not really clip art, but an integral part of a
> narrative expressed through the book's text.  The most mest
> obvious use of the illustrations would be to create translations
> of the book.

You make a fair point - while transformations of the book are welcome,
we are also hoping that the illustrations - cropped and edited as may
be needed, are of some value to the community as well.

> I think the images (already up on Flickr) is all you need as
> source files to make an adaption. Anyway, the text is selectable
> and copyable from the book website, so someone that want to make
> a straight copy in some other format (e.g. HTML) already have
> access to all the required source material and can create a
> copy using cut & paste.

Correct. We could also link directly to a PDF is that made it easier.

> What is missing, is a non-confusing rights statement about
> the rights to adapt the text.

Agreed - it is confusing. I've fixed the Scribd version to have the
same license as the Flickr versions. Sadly, there are now two license
on the Scribd version - one in the document and one in the Scribd
meta-data.

> I, at least, find it confusing to have to incompatible rights
> statements in the same document.

Right - we will fix that in the future.

> I think this practice are also confusing to other users of
> material under a Creative Commons license, and should be
> avoided.

I understand - we will fix this for future releases.

> No.  The material already available is fine for anyone that
> wants to make adaptations.  What needs fixing is the
> contradictory rights statements.

As I've said above - we will fix this.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam
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