[cc-licenses] Photo alongside text: collective or derivative
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
Wed Jul 5 06:23:13 EDT 2006
Suppose a photo (or another image) is licensed under CC-by-sa 2.5.
Then suppose the photo is reproduced as an illustration next to text
(either on a Web page or on a printed page) so that the image is
neither modified (except scaled and subjected to whatever color
reproduction technology happens to be at hand) nor partially covered
in any way. That is, the photo can be saved intact from a Web page or
scanned intact (except for technical degradation) from a printed
page. The text refers to the image, so they aren't totally unrelated.
In that case, do the text and the photo form a Collective Work (and
the text does not need to be licensed under CC-by-sa 2.5) or do they
form a Derivative Work (and the text has to be under CC-by-sa 2.5)?
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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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