[cc-community] Use of CC Images in a photo gallery
Nathan Yergler
nathan at creativecommons.org
Wed Jun 24 14:58:05 EDT 2009
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Christoph Endell<endell at gmx.de> 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?
The license states that a "collection" is not considered an adaptation
for the purpose of the license and therefore does not engage the SA
clause. See section 1a-b
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode).
>
> Paul Houle schrieb:
>> Rachel Been wrote:
>>> I have a hypothetical question for fair-use involving using CC images
>>> such as those found on Flickr in an online gallery experience
>>> incorporating other images licensed through other means (i.e editorial
>>> or royalty free licensed images from Getty, lets say).
>> CC-BY-SA could give you problems.
>>
>> You're only allowed to use CC-BY-SA images on a site which is itself
>> CC-BY-SA. You can't fuse CC-BY-SA content with content that's not
>> compatible with CC-BY-SA. For instance, you can't legally display
>> coordinates from dbpedia (CC-BY-SA) on a Google Map, because other
>> people aren't allowed to use the images from Google as CC-BY-SA.
>>
>> CC-BY-SA can be combined with CC-BY and PD images, but not with
>> anything that has commercial strings attached: for instance, "royalty
>> free" images for which you've paid for the right to use on your site but
>> haven't paid to allow anybody else to copy and use.
>>
>> You're certainly free to mix CC-BY-SA photos with images that you
>> created yourself, but you'll need to license them as CC-BY or CC-BY-SA
>> so that the whole product can be licensed CC-BY-SA.
>>
>> On the other hand, you can do what you like with CC-BY images, so long
>> as you give credit to the original photographer. There's no issue
>> mixing them with images with other licenses (unless the other license
>> has a problem.)
>>
>> *-NC is just plain evil, a fundamental mistake that's harmed CC. Don't
>> go there. Same with *-ND.
>>
>>
>>
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