Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Henri Sivonen <hsivonen AT iki.fi>]

On Jul 6, 2006, at 00:17, Terry Hancock wrote:
> Henri Sivonen wrote:
> >  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)
> [....]
>
> Prior CC statements with specific reference to Wikipedia
> indicate that the CC copyleft does not apply to that case: the two
> works are separate.

On Jul 5, 2006, at 14:15, Peter Brink wrote:

> I'd say it's a collective work.

Thanks. Those stances make sense.

Since using images as unmodified illustrations alongside text is a  
pretty common use case and the licenses already have a "for avoidance  
of doubt" clarification for syncing audio to video, it would be nice  
to have a "for avoidance of doubt" clarification for this use case in  
the 3.0 series of licenses.

I have photos of famous places sitting on my hard drive. I think they  
might be more useful if they were available for anyone to use. Hence,  
I've been considering PD, CC-by and CC-by-sa. I am trying to  
understand what ShareAlike means when applied to photos. For theory,  
if not else, I am interested in whether ShareAlike in this case could  
be used like GPL with GNU Readline. Apparently, it can't. But that  
would probably be a bad idea anyway. I think photos in general come  
with too strong rights by default, so perhaps insisting on ShareAlike  
would be obnoxious. (OTOH, there's always FUD on whether copyright  
waivers are valid in Finland, so I will probably settle for CC-by  
instead of PD, even though I'm not sure if I really want attribution.)

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