Thanks for posting this to the mailinglist!

Maybe we should create a page on commons to collect all court decision/court 
rulings which are relevant for commons.

Best,
--Steinsplitter

> From: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:04:27 +0000
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Commons-l] A new derivative/compilation court ruling
> 
> Perhaps of interest...
> 
> A new (US) district court ruling on the distinction between a
> derivative work and a collection in the context of CC-BY-SA licenses -
> 
> http://www.technollama.co.uk/us-court-interprets-copyleft-clause-in-creative-commons-licenses
> 
> Looks like they came to the sensible decision - interpreting
> 'derivative' relatively narrowly. In this case, a CC-BY-SA image was
> used for the cover of a book and it was held that the license clearly
> did not extend to the rest of the book as a derivative work.
> 
> -- 
> - Andrew Gray
>   [email protected]
> 
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