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Re: [cc-licenses] simple question on derivative works

From: Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] simple question on derivative works
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:48:26 -0600

Dana Powers wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Pedro Beltrao <pedrobeltrao AT gmail.com> wrote:
>>In particular imagine I want to promote a document in a blog post and
>>I want to use one of the pictures in the document to illustrate some
>>of points. Is this allowed ?
>
> In this case there would probably be a fair use defense regardless of
> what license is used.

Quotes for the purposes of review are a particularly well-defined case
of "fair use". Quoting one image from a blog, or a single paragraph
(possibly even both), is almost certainly covered by that case. So you
should be all right with that kind of use, regardless of license.

IANAL, though.

Cheers,
Terry

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

[cc-licenses] simple question on derivative works, Pedro Beltrao, 03/07/2007
- Re: [cc-licenses] simple question on derivative works, Dana Powers, 03/07/2007
  - Re: [cc-licenses] simple question on derivative works, Terry Hancock, 03/08/2007