[WikiEN-l] No derivatives (was: Would you like one of your videos posted on Wikipedia?)

Fri Sep 22 13:41:00 UTC 2006

> 
> > digging, it does seem to be disallowed. For rationale, I get pointed 
> > back to either Jimbo's posts on disallowing non-commercial-use media 
> > licenses, fair use, or discussion of downstream use. 
> > 
> > None of these reasons seem to apply here. For the free encyclopedia, 
> > a CC-BY-ND media license, for example, is perfectly redistributable, 
> > allows for possible commercial use, and poses no issues for forks or 
> > other downstream use, right? 
> 
> When we talk about Wikipedia being free, we refer to the 4 freedoms of 
> free software, as defined by Richard Stallman many years ago:
> 
> 0. The freedom to copy
> 1. The freedom to redistribute
> 2. The freedom to modify
> 3. The freedom to redistribute modified versions
> 
> CC-BY-NC violates at least the last of these.
> 

This is just an unfortunate typo, and you mean CC-BY-ND. Right?

> Why do we care?  Because we want people to be able to adapt our work for 
> their own purposes.  It is difficult for us to foresee what those 
> purposes might be.
> 
> Perhaps an artist wants to create a Digital Dream Booth... you walk into 
> it, and say some concept like "Iraq" and dozens of images drawn from 
> Wikipedia, interspersed with snippets of text, cascade down around you 
> dissolving and forming in unusual ways.  The images are digitally 
> morphed, one into the next.
> 
> This is clearly going to involve making derivative works of our images.
> 
> --Jimbo
> 

This is well explained. Thank you.

Regards,
Daniel