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Commercial use of CC-BY-SA-2.0-AT?

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  1. jmtarjan
    Member

    Hello. I am about to self-publish a novel. The book will be sold through a publishing service that will sell physical copies of my book via print-on-demand, and also through PDF digital downloads. (I will receive a (small) percentage of the revenue.)

    Here's the issue: I am designing my own cover and would like to use an image I found on Wikipedia, posted with the CC-BY-SA-2.0-AT license. I would like to use a part of this image on a part of my cover, and am trying to understand the extent to which I can use this image "commercially." I can certainly put an attribute to the author within the first few pages of the book (or on the back cover). I could also make a digital version of the cover freely available through my own website (and state that fact within the book). But obviously I can't give the entire book away for free (at least not physical copies).

    So my question is: From a publishing perspective, what constitutes valid commercial use (if any) with the above license?

    Thanks for any feedback on this matter.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  2. nkinkade
    Key Master

    The BY-SA licenses don't have a commercial restriction. For the SA (ShareAlike) licenses the thing to keep in mind is whether or not your resulting work is a derivative or adaptation, in which case the resulting work would need to be released under the same license. However, if you determine that your intended usage only falls into the category of a "Collectionm," then you are only obligated to properly attribute the work.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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