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  • From: Mark Jarrell <jarrellmark AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] "mere aggregation"
  • Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:42:39 -0700 (PDT)

I think fair use still applies to CC licenses--they are less restrictive
licenses, but CC material is just copyrighted material. So I guess you could
probably use the CC-By-SA picture like you would any other picture.

Cheers,
Mark Jarrell

----- Original Message ----
From: Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts
<cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:17:52 PM
Subject: [cc-licenses] "mere aggregation"

This question was spurred partly from a question in the NC thread, but
mostly because I'm dealing with it on a project I'm working on.

I'm creating a set of illustrations to go along with an article. Due to
the nature of the blogging software, it's desireable to minimize the
number of images. I often do this by using multiple images in one, or
"insets". In my current project, some of the "insets" are copyrighted
works whose use in my case is (IMHO anyway) "fair use" (they're images
from movies which I am comparing to each other and to certain questions
of archetypes in fiction and how they relate to certain philosophical
ideas -- so they're valid "quotations for review purposes"). However,
the big image in some cases is a CC-By-SA work (actually they may be all
CC-By, I haven't checked through them all yet -- but it's possible).

Does the act of combining the images in this way constitute a violation
of the copyleft? I understand that including images in a document is
considered "mere aggregation" and so not affected by copyleft, and in my
own mind, I'm still doing this (they're conceptually separate pictures,
even though they are in a single JPG file).

Does it make a difference whether the images overlap (as in an inset) or
are merely beside each other (an array)?

Just for reference, here's an existing example of what I mean by an "array":

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/files/nodes/1713/kusanagi_which_real.jpg

and here of "insets":

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/files/nodes/1366/fig_tucson2000.jpg

It seems like an interesting use case. I dislike the idea of having to
separate the material based on license/fair use, rather than for
stylistic reasons, but of course, it is possible.

Opinions?

Cheers,
Terry

--
Terry Hancock (hancock AT AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com


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