[FC-discuss] creating a copyright How-To for professors whose slideshow presentations have unlicensed images

Dominic dmcdevit at cox.net
Mon Feb 2 20:10:52 EST 2009


D Parker Phinney wrote:
> I just wanted to bump this once (sorry).  I just put a bunch of time 
> into the wiki page, so now it's really ready for you guys to pick at it 
> and add in what i've missed.
>   

I haven't made any changes because I'm not quite sure how to correct it, 
but one problem I see is the conflation of "Creative Commons licensed" 
with some concept like "freely licensed." Not all CC licenses are free, 
and not all free licenses are CC (and for instance, much of the free 
Wikimedia Commons media is GFDL, not a CC license).

This could be dangerous when someone who doesn't understand the 
difference between a free CC license and one like the No 
Derivatives-Non-Commercial one ends up at flickr finding unfree CC 
images and thinking they're doing the right thing. Of course, this 
probably complicates things a lot more than the current text has it.

Dominic


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