[OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Mon Jul 26 16:59:55 BST 2010


On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>wrote:

> You said, "Which means *all elements* of the produced work are under
> BY-SA."
>
> This is already the invalid step in your "proof". If I license a Wikipedia
> article under CC-BY-SA, that doesn't mean that the pictures in that article
> have to be CC-BY-SA. If I license an album of songs under CC-BY-SA, that
> doesn't mean that each song in the album have to be CC-BY-SA as well.
>

That's because a Wikipedia article (according to Wikipedia, anyway) and an
album of songs (more clearly) is a "Collective Work" under CC-BY-SA.

Are you saying that a mash-up is a "Collective Work" under CC-BY-SA?  Is
that a topic that's been discussed before on this mailing list?
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