[cc-licenses] Share-Alike with images
Erik Moeller
erik at wikimedia.org
Mon Feb 5 12:27:28 EST 2007
On 2/5/07, James Grimmelmann <james at grimmelmann.net> wrote:
> Making the SA licenses define the combined article as a "derivative
> work" has two confusing consequences. First, it surprises some people
> by imposing a stronger link between the text and photograph than they
> may expect. Second, it gives "derivative work" a new and unexpected
> meaning in the context, one that doesn't track the usual categories of
> copyright law.
The license already explicitly defines movies that are time-sync'd
with music as a derivative work. I don't think the combination of,
say, a newspaper article with a photo is significantly different. In
both cases, one work is used to add to the information content of the
other, while the original works are not significantly altered. In
fact, I think this distinction (if it does exist) is highly
counterintuitive for authors.
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Peace & Love,
Erik
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