El 27/09/13 19:01, Pat David escribió:
All,
I had an interesting discussion today in IRC I'm summarizing here in order
to clarify some sticky points.
I had recently pushed a new tutorial that included an image I took of a
friend. Michael had concerns about the use of this image and the cc-by-sa
license I was applying to the entire work. Mainly, did I have a model
release for the woman in the photograph (I thought I did, but didn't
apparently).
IANAL, but I think the rule of thumb for CC is that you should have all
the requirements for a traditional copyright covered first.
If you hold the copyright, then you're entitled to re-license your stuff
with more permissive licenses like Creative Commons.
But first make sure you have ALL the legal requirements for copyright
covered. A portrait and most of the photos showing people faces require
a model release if you want to present them as *your* work and protect
them with a copyright.
In most countries (if not all) the copyright and similar intellectual
property rights preceed any other right, so if you want to share (via PD
or CC licencese) you have to legally own the stuff.
If you took images published under permissive licenses (PD or CC) for
your work, you shouldn't worry. The model release and the ownership are
responsability of whoever publised the images under those licenses. In
that case you only have to honor the conditions of the published license.
Gez.
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