[cc-community] Different licenses for different versions of a work

Tisza Gergő gtisza at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 12:18:58 EDT 2009


Authors sometimes offer an image in smaller resolution under a free CC license,
and the full version under a noncommercial one. Is this practice legally solid?
My impression always was that the license is bound to the abstract entity called
"work", and specific images are only different formats of that, as far as they
don't contain creative modifications. Doesn't this sort of dual-licensing
practice present the danger that someone takes the full version for commercial
use and says "hey, you licensed it under CC-BY! It's the same work!"?



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