On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 04:48:54PM -0500, Tom Wright wrote:
> I would like to see a policy that places presentations under a
> formal licence such as a Creative Commons licence.  Does such a
> licence protect the presenter from derivative copies of work, such
> as a photo of a presentation slide?

Protect them how?  Is the goal allowing reuse of the presentation?
Restricting reuse of the presentation?  Something else?

There's some “performance” language in the CC legal code (e.g. [1]),
which seems like it should cover presentations.  But the strictest CC
license seems to be CC BY-ND [2], which still allows people to freely
distribute copies [3], but not to distribute derivative works
(although they can still create derivative works [4]).  Because
licensees are allowed to share partial copies of the work [3] and
change the format [5], I'd guess CC BY-ND would still allow licensees
to share photos of a presentation slide.  But I'm not a lawyer, and
there are a number of issues in play besides copyright
(e.g. personality and moral rights [6,7,8]).

> Do other scientific organisations have policies in this area?

This would be good to know, since by the time an organization has a
policy, a lawyer has likely been consulted ;).

Cheers,
Trevor

[1]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode#s1a
[2]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
[3]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode#s2a1A
[4]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode#s2a1B
[5]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode#s2a4
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
[8]: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/4.0/Moral_rights

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