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  • From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab AT web.de>
  • To: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] CC ShareAlike: Include a requirement for source form of the work?
  • Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:42:43 +0100

Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2015, 15:30:31 schrieb Rob Myers:
> > I recently took 6 minutes of HD video the resulting file is 800Mb
> > and I've not begun to process it yet. A family member works with
> > professional broadcast film and they rarely handle file packages
> > that are less that 100Gb.
>
> Remember that the GPL allows you to charge costs to deliver the source
> "on a durable physical medium". So if it would take two dozen hard
> disks to send me the source, that's what I would have to pay for.
>
> A source requirement isn't going to be added, but it's not as
> outlandish for professional/semi-professional production as it might seem.

I understand why this is not suitable for creativecommons: Most people
simply won’t need the raw files, but the requirement to keep the raw
files around would keep many people from publishing or re-using under
cc by-sa.

For programs (and anything which needs the GPL) a source-requirement
is needed to get a reasonable measure of reusability. For most
cultural works, that would be a deterrent for reuse, simply because
most users of the works won’t be able to keep up with that and would
walk very insecure legal territory when they decide to finally throw
away those old raw files because they need more space on their hard
disks.

Or when they just do a quick remix of two or three videos and only
have little webspace available.

Best wishes,
Arne
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