Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Erik Moeller" <erik AT wikimedia.org>]

On 2/21/07, Javier Candeira <javier AT candeira.com> wrote:
> Some of my flickr photos, which are by-sa, have been used in wikipedia
> without any problem:

Yes, the language of the GFDL is very similar to the CC-BY-SA in that
respect. What I was saying is that we _could_ alter CC-BY-SA without
impacting current practice negatively.

> This means
> they can print my photos on their newspaper without copylefting the whole
> newspaper, but stating my authorship and letting anyone else also copy the
> picture under the license.

1) In the language I propose, they would not have to copyleft the
whole newspaper, but only the article the picture is used in.

2) If you do not care about the copyleft, why not simply use CC-BY?
The work _itself_ will always have to be freely available, and the
licensing notice also has to be kept intact.

The whole point of copyleft is to benefit from other people's uses.
When these uses are almost never directly derivative, but more of a
combinatory nature, and copyleft doesn't address it, it is quite
clearly a broken and inadequate license.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik

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