On 02/23/11 5:10 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > If that is the case (As I understood this has never yet been tested in > court, but I would appreciate any links to any jurisprudence, although we > probably should start a new thread) then the point I tried to make still > stands: a license should work in every medium. Whether the uploader makes > restrictions to the applicability of the license does not matter, we should > just avoid that merely because of the license the work cannot be used in a > certain medium.
The lack of jurisprudence is often because the costs of litigation far exceed the value of the infringement. Saying that a licence should work in every medium is shaky at best. A spoken version of a written work would raise the matter of performance rights. Extrapolations to other media cannot be evaluated without knowing what the new medium is. Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
