Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public apology

Re:Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public... by cooper12 on Saturday July 16, 2016 @01:07PM (#12107026)

The issue here was with attribution, which the license explicitly requires. Public domain doesn't require that so it wouldn't have come into play here. The reason they had to be "controlling and litigious" is so that their licensing terms were respected and they received the attribution they deserved. This is no different than the Free Software Foundation going after GPL violators; while the overall goal of the GPL license is to permit others to modify and distribute the software, it also requires sharing modifications made. When you use someone's image without respecting their license, it damages the purpose of the license and would only discourage free licensing.

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Re:Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public... by gaur on Saturday July 16, 2016 @04:06PM (#12107676)

> The reason they had to be "controlling and litigious" is so that their licensing terms were respected and they received the attribution they deserved

You are free to harass people about licensing if you want, but you don't then get to turn around and claim you're fighting the good fight against overly restrictive copyright law.

If you're litigating against small-time festival organizers for not putting fine print on a poster picture, you're much closer to the Warner Music end of the spectrum rather than the Richard Stallman end of the spectrum in terms of copyright.

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Re:Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public... by detaro on Saturday July 16, 2016 @04:14PM (#12107715)

Where does Richard Stallman endorse not enforcing the GPL or other open-source licenses?

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Re:Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public... by gaur on Saturday July 16, 2016 @04:17PM (#12107731)

I did not make that claim.

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Re:Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public... by detaro on Saturday July 16, 2016 @04:23PM (#12107757)

You claim that enforcing open licenses, designed to make it easier to use, modify and share works for general benefit is more big-bad business than Stallmans perspective. But Stallman is generally a vocal supporter of such licenses, so if he supports their enforcement he is just as bad?

Both CC and open-source software use the framework of existing copyright law to guarantee a "fair" use of works, with only few restrictions. Not without any restrictions.

I maybe should not have responded with this provocative question, but to me both movements use very similar tools for similar purposes.

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Re:Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public... by cooper12 on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:30PM (#12108625)

> Both CC and open-source software use the framework of existing copyright law to guarantee a "fair" use of works, with only few restrictions. Not without any restrictions.

You said it much better than I ever could :). And that's why I used the comparison to the GPL, especially since that has a history of the FSF going to court over violations.

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