[open-science] Call for OpenCourseWare to be published at SlideWiki.org

Wed Feb 27 15:32:46 UTC 2013

I read parts of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
and now I have a very different understanding to looking at shorter description and some, not necessarily the most representative cases. 

Except for the "Fair use" case (which, may depend a lot on country)... and a typical "No one will care, sue or even get angry (I hope author is OK with that)", CC BY SA make a distinction between "adaptation" (where you need to apply CC BY SA) and "collection" (where you need to apply CC BY SA _only_ to this part).

It that sense CC BY SA seems to not be as viral (and thus of very limited reusability) as I thought. 

In particular, (again, I now little about copyright law) it _seems_ that using a slide with CC BY SA license ensures that this slide (with further modifications) will remain under CC BY SA, but do not force to apply to other slides.

Though, the distinction between "adaptation" and "collection" may be tricky even on philosophical grounds, not to say on legal.

Regards,
Piotr

On 24 Feb 2013, at 19:15, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Paweł Szczęsny <ps at pawelszczesny.org> wrote:
> 
>> Anybody correct me if I'm wrong, but the presentation is a remix and
>> Share-Alike (or ND) conditions of licenses of the remixed works apply
>> to the remix: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_combine_works_that_use_different_Creative_Commons_licenses_into_my_work.3F
>> 
>> So "SA" enforces the license of the whole presentation.

> 

> Unless, of course, one of these exceptions apply:
> 
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Do_Creative_Commons_licenses_affect_exceptions_and_limitations_to_copyright.2C_such_as_fair_dealing_and_fair_use.3F  
> 
> whether using a single slide out of 50 would be considered "fair use" would depend on how central the slide was too the original presentation, the intended use of the new presentation, and perhaps some other factors, but I'd guess that more often than not it would qualify for a fair use exception.