[cc-community] Use of CC Images in a photo gallery

Paul Houle paul at ontology2.com
Wed Jun 24 14:54:18 EDT 2009


Christoph Endell wrote:
> But what about the proposed question: the reason why you are not allowed to mix 
> CC-BY-SA with other content is because you need to make sure the work in 
> question can be reused by others, right?
>
> I don´t see why it would harm the license if the pictures were displayed in the 
> same gallery. It doesn´t change the license "plate" of the works that are 
> licensed CC-BY-SA.
>
> Or am I wrong?
>
>   
    If that were the case,  then CC-BY-SA wouldn't mean anything.

    I could use CC-BY-SA images in a book I publish,  grant no CC-BY-SA 
rights to the readers,  maybe just put a note in saying that they're 
welcome to use the CC-BY-SA images...  That's wrong.

    The point of CC-BY-SA is that,  like the GPL,  it's viral.  CC-BY-SA 
encourages people to create an expanding pool of CC-BY-SA content:  the 
"price" you pay for access to the CC-BY-SA pool is that the content that 
you build on top of it is also CC-BY-SA;  the hope is that other people 
are going to build on top of that pool and it will get bigger and bigger 
in a virtuous circle.

    CC-BY-SA allows commercial use and REQUIRES that you grant others 
the right to use your content commercially.  On the other hand,  it 
doesn't grant commercial users the right to deny others the rights they 
have under CC-BY-SA.  For instance,  if I record a song and release it 
under CC-BY-SA,  an artist working for Warner Brothers can sample the 
song,  produce a derived work,  and release it on an album.  There's no 
problem with them selling it.  However,   the song they create needs to 
be available under CC-BY-SA.  They'd have no right to stop people from 
sharing such a song on a file sharing network.


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