Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>]

Charles Iliya Krempeaux skrev:
> What I'm wondering is, if an image or video is made copylefted by
> licensing it under the Creative Commons BY-SA license, then.... if a
> webpage were to embed (and NOT just simply link to) such an image or
> video, then would it become copylefted too?... and, in other words,
> would the webpage become licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA
> license too?

No. A webpage with embedded images (or any other file) is a "collective 
work". It's a collection several, independent, works. The CC license 
does not require that all the components of a collective work are 
licensed under the same license (or under any license at all). See 
sections 1.a and 4.a.

> If the answer is "no", then will the CC 3.0 contain anything like
> that? I.e., where embedding a BY-SA image or video into a webpage, via
> the HTML <img>, <embed>, or <object> elements, would make that webpage
> a "derivative work" and make it become BY-SA too?

AFAIK, the answer is no - and why should it? An embedded image is no 
derivative work, why should we allow for such an extension of the 
licensor's rights?

/Peter Brink