Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Dana Powers" <dana.powers AT gmail.com>]

> From the FDL:

A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the
Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
modifications and/or translated into another language.

Section 4 of the FDL allows copying and distributing Modified Versions
using what CC would call a Share-Alike condition.


A lawyer could probably pick this apart ("work" ? "contain" ?), but
the intent seems to be clearly directed at compilations and collective
works like the photograph+article structure.

Dana

On 5/10/07, Wolfgang Wander <wwcsmail AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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