Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Wolfgang Wander" <wwcsmail AT gmail.com>]

Thanks for the update Rob,

  this is perfect news.  Since the discussion about the editorial combination
of images and text with regards to CC-by-SA I've not published another single
image under a free license and worked to educate people about CC's
interpretation
of CC-by-SA.   The FSF's clarification was exactly what I was waiting
for and this
will surely mean more material for wikimedia from me and my friends.

  Given the GPL and it's use in free software development any other statement
from the FSF would have been very unexpected, yet this clarification is a 
relief
after all that waiting...

            Wolfgang




On 5/9/07, rob AT robmyers.org <rob AT robmyers.org> wrote:
> (I'm posting this here because of the recent debate about photography.)
>
> The FSF have blogged about their interpretation of the scope of the FDL:
>
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-05-08-fdl-scope
>
> They support the position that Ben Mako Hill described, where use of
> an image to illustrate a text creates a derivative. It's well worth a
> read.
>
> I was particularly interested by this statement:
>
> "In cases like these where the materials complement each other, we
> believe that the end result is a derivative work."
>
> This contains two useful distinctions. The materials have been chosen
> to complement each other to form a unit of presumably increased value
> or greater use rather than just being aggregated. And *the end result*
> is the derivative work, not the text or the photo, so legal causality
> isn't broken.
>
> What I am curious about is what exactly this "end result" is
> (collective work, new multimedia work, or ...?) and how far-reaching
> this effect is (particularly with regard to e.g. contextual
> advertising).
>
> - Rob.
>
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