[cc-licenses] simple question on derivative works

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Thu Mar 8 02:48:26 EST 2007


Dana Powers wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Pedro Beltrao <pedrobeltrao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>In particular imagine I want to promote a document in a blog post and
>>I want to use one of the pictures in the document to illustrate some
>>of points. Is this allowed ?
> 
> In this case there would probably be a fair use defense regardless of
> what license is used.

Quotes for the purposes of review are a particularly well-defined case
of "fair use". Quoting one image from a blog, or a single paragraph
(possibly even both), is almost certainly covered by that case. So you
should be all right with that kind of use, regardless of license.

IANAL, though.

Cheers,
Terry

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