Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Charles Iliya Krempeaux" <supercanadian AT gmail.com>]

Hello Peter,

On 8/28/06, Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se> wrote:

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?

I know there are people here from many different "camps".  But I come from the point-of-view that the enforcement of copyright law is morally wrong.  I see copyleft as making the world as if copyright law did NOT exist.

I see the spreading of copyleft (in the world we live in) to be a preferred, because undoes what copyright law forces upon me and others.

(NOTE: I am NOT trying to get into a political or philisophical arguement.  Just trying to explain "why" I'd like to seee such a thing.)

So... that's why I'd like to see such a thing.


See ya

-- 
    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

    charles @ 
reptile.ca
    supercanadian @ gmail.com

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