[cc-community] Compatibility of CC licenses between jurisidictions?
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Jul 6 18:09:18 EDT 2010
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 13:25:43 Paul Houle wrote:
> Here's another practical problem.
>
> Let's suppose I'm writing a blog article (for the sake of argument,
> I'm based in the US )and I'm incorporating photographs that I've gotten
> from other sources.
>
> If the photographs are cc-by-{country} it seems like there's no
> problem if I attribute correctly.
The example of using photos as illustrations in a text is possibly not the
best example to explore the question you are asking.
Rather what if you were to be making a compound blog article using various
texts under different country licenses and the unported license.
The reason is that the license on the photos may not matter as the theory is
that the article is not a derivative of the photos. (Quick and dirty
explanation from one ignorant in the art. Three should be discussions of this
in the list archives though.)
all the best,
drew
>
> Now, if the photographs are cc-by-sa-{country}, I'm a little more
> concerned. Is cc-by-sa-{country} compatible with cc-by-sa unported?
> What issues are involved?
>
> When I look at wikipedia I see that wikipedia as a whole is
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution
>-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License
>
> but I can find photos in wikimedia commons that are in specific
> country licenses, for instance:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presa_chira_gran_canaria.JPG
>
> which is used on the page
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria
>
> of course there are also strange examples such as
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dingzhou_Liaodi_Pagoda_3.jpg
>
> which has contradictory statements on the page, but contains the
> particularly strange assertion that "Multi-license with GFDL and
> Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-2.5 and older versions (2.0 and 1.0)"
>
> -----
>
> Which then begs the question, suppose I'm running a photo
> collection site, say something like
>
> http://carpictures.cc/
>
> what do I have to tell the users? Can I just "relicense" the images
> as cc-by-sa/3.0 "unported" or do I have to code each and every possible
> license and explain them to end users?
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