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share-alike license - impact on publication of a book

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  1. levro
    Member

    Hello,

    I am about to publish a scientific book (psychology) via a regular publisher which uses many creative commons pictures that allow usage for commercial purposes. Many of those pictures have a “noncommerical/share-alike” license and I am a bit unclear what this means for my book. At the end of my book every single artist is certainly credited with his/her name and the title of the picture. I also make clear that many of the pictures are used under a “share alike” license. However, what does this mean for me? Can for example reader request that I hand them the original photos or copy pages? Does this license make the entire book a share-alike product (my publisher might have objections against this). I am sorry if these questions sound stupid. I have really tried hard to answer them myself but I am not a legal expert and want to be on the safe side.

    Kind regards, Levro

    Posted 5 months ago #

  2. osorio
    Member

    How many noncommercial/share-alike CC pictures are there in your work? If you've put the time and effort into placing credits for each of these and you needed then as relevant material for your publication then it may be worth contacting the photographic artists and get first hand permissions just to cover your base. In doing so this may protect your work from lawsuit's not that I think that may happen, It's just a good precaution to take.

    Posted 4 months ago #

  3. levro
    Member

    Hello,
    thanks for your reply, Osorio.
    I am sorry that I have perhaps not expressed myself clearly. All photos that I use in the book are allowed for commercial purposes but some of them (20-30) also have a share-alike (SA) license. I am unsure if this makes my book a share-alike product as well? I presume that my publisher does not want that. The SA license says: "If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute ***the resulting work*** only under the same, similar or a compatible license." The big question is: what falls under the term ***resulting work***: the specific photo I have used (and perhaps changed) or the entire book although the photos are only a very small part of it?

    Kind regards & I would be grateful for further advice, Steffen

    Posted 4 months ago #

  4. Metatee
    Member

    Hi
    I am very much interested in the same topic, except I am working on a videoclip which contains photos with a cc license. Is it possible to use fotos with a cc-by-sa license together with fotos issued under a cc-by-nc-sa license in the same derivative work, i.e. the videoclip?
    cheers, Jo

    Posted 4 months ago #

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