[cc-licenses] Clarification needed - Copyleft AND Share-Alike with Images
Javier Candeira
javier at candeira.com
Mon Feb 26 08:28:30 EST 2007
rob at robmyers.org wrote:
> Image libraries seem to have no trouble defining the circumstances in
> which use
> of their copyrighted material requires payment, or the scope and nature of use
> that they will consider at all. They do not use an existing narrow right, they
> use an existing blanket right and give permission to exercise this right in
> narrow circumstances with carefully worded limits and requirements.
>
> So real-world experience shows that the case of illustrations doesn't
> need a new
> narrow right, it doesn't need the meaning of any legal terms to be
> changed, and
> it doesn't need the scope of the license to be limited discretely by the
> terminology used by the law.
I stand corrected.
> For a copyleft license the case of illustration needs the scope of the license
> to expand to cover reproduction in a few carefully defined cases where
> reproduction rather than derivation creates a context where "share and share
> alike" is broken.
Yes, I had surmised so from Drew Roberts' clarification of his point.
> Assuming that doing so isn't harmful.
Which should have been the thrust of my argument, instead of going for a
diversion.
Thanks for the lesson,
- javier
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