[cc-licenses] Creative Commons & Copyleft question?
Charles Iliya Krempeaux
supercanadian at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 15:01:39 EDT 2006
Hello,
Here's something I found where someone had similar thoughts to what I was
thinking...
http://systemed.net/blog/entry060311122655.html
See ya
On 8/28/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Terry,
>
>
> On 8/28/06, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> >
> > Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> > > What I'm wondering is, if an image or video is made copylefted by
> > > licensing it under the Creative Commons BY-SA license, then.... if a
> > > webpage were to embed (and NOT just simply link to) such an image or
> > > video, then would it become copylefted too?... and, in other words,
> > > would the webpage become licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA
> > > license too?
> > >
> > > If I were talking about the GNU GPL, I believe the answer would be
> > > "yes". And if I were talking about the GNU LGPL, then I believe the
> > > answer would be "no". But I'm not sure what the Creative Commons
> > > BY-SA license does in this situation.
> >
> > Actually, I think the answer might be "no" for all three, but it's
> > certainly
> > "no" for the CC-By-SA.
> >
> > I realize that you are arguing from analogy with shared-object library
> > linkages -- but I don't think it's all that clear legally that the GPL's
> >
> > copyleft can include images in an HTML page. Even though HTML pages
> > appear to "contain" images, the images are separate files. Also, were
> > this
> > required, GPL webpages could become quite useless due to the lack of
> > compatibly licensed images (then again, maybe that's why it's not a
> > popular
> > license for webpages).
> >
>
> If the answer is "no", then will the CC 3.0 contain anything like that?
> I.e., where embedding a BY-SA image or video into a webpage, via the HTML
> <img>, <embed>, or <object> elements, would make that webpage a "derivative
> work" and make it become BY-SA too?
>
>
--
Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
charles @ reptile.ca
supercanadian @ gmail.com
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