On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 12:08 AM Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> > wrote: > >> Thanks, Allan for doing this. My only question is what you mean by not >> posting creative commons on social media. Can you expand on that? >> > Sure. This is definitely one area where I had to make a guess! > > The terms of service of Facebook (and I think Twitter) assume that the > poster is the author of any assets they post. They also relicense any > materials posted, in order to grant themselves permission to reproduce > those assets. It seems to me that this is incompatible with Creative > Commons licenses - since their whole point is that someone other than the > author can't strip the licence and replace it with one of their own. >
Oh, interesting I didn't think of that. That said, the share-alike license does grant Facebook and Twitter rights to duplicate which is all they are asking anyways. > > I should stress that this is purely my own interpretation. I've searched > the web and haven't been able to find any advice, and I can't find anything > on the Creative Commons website about it. I've even asked on > #creative-commons but didn't get a reply. > We could ask Pam Chestek? She might be able to tell us or perhaps the Facebook legal team? It seems creative commons has a facebook page. :-) https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons We could ask there. sri > > Allan >
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