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  • From: "Branko Collin" <collin AT xs4all.nl>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: How to overlay creativecommons licensing logos
  • Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:22:08 +0200

On 20 Oct 2004, at 2:46, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:

> > Some of my co-workers however got the impression from Roland that we
> > should just offer people the actual 'CC' logo to overlay, and leave
> > it up to stream providers to provide further licensing details on
> > their website.
> >
> > So I am writing this list hoping for some final advice on which
> > approach we should take on the overlaying :)
>
> I'd question going with the co-workers on this one, but I tend to
> favor not interfering with the artistic image at all. I think too
> much screen real estate is taken up with all the logos one could use
> to describe various aspects of the work one is trying to see.

Doesn't overlaying a logo create a derivative work? If so, that would
be a form of copyright infringement. Hardly the thing to aim at.

--
branko collin
collin AT xs4all.nl




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