- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:39:08 +0900
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- CC: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, spec-prod@w3.org
On 2011/12/16 1:37, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Ian Jacobs writes: > >> On 15 Dec 2011, at 10:27 AM, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> >>> Anybody ever put e.g. a CC 3.0 Sharealike with citation license on one >>> or more figures in a W3C Rec.? Any reason not to? >> >> I believe that would conflict with the Document License. > > Well, obviously I wondered about that, and, equally obviously, IANAL, > but I thought that a single figure was likely to be reusable under > fair-use _anyway_, so we might as well ask for credit, and it's a way > to acknowledge a contribution from the 'artist'. . . IANAL here too, and rules and practice may well differ quite a bit among countries. But from what I have observed in actual practice (e.g. how reuse of figures is handled in the academic world), there is quite a bit of a difference between text and figures. There seems to be a lot of leeway for how much *text* you can cite within "fair use" (or whatever equivalent in other jurisdictions). On the other hand, there seems to be much less leeway for figures. Some of the difference may be attributed to tradition. But to some extent, the difference is due to the fact that we seem to assume more artistic content (expression) in a figure than in text, and figures come much more in fixed, integral units than text (where you can cite from a few words to a clause to a sentence to a paragraph and up). Regards, Martin.
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