[Gimp-developer] wgo, model releases, and cc licensing

2013-09-27 Thread Pat David
All, I had an interesting discussion today in IRC I'm summarizing here in order to clarify some sticky points. I had recently pushed a new tutorial that included an image I took of a friend. Michael had concerns about the use of this image and the cc-by-sa license I was applying to the entire

Re: [Gimp-developer] wgo, model releases, and cc licensing

2013-09-27 Thread Partha Bagchi
Funny you should ask. :) Shutterbug has a recent article on this: http://www.shutterbug.com/content/copyrights-model-releases-and-contracts-what-every-photographer-should-know And you may want to look at what the American Society of Media Photographers has to say:

Re: [Gimp-developer] wgo, model releases, and cc licensing

2013-09-27 Thread Guillermo Espertino (Gez)
El 27/09/13 19:01, Pat David escribió: All, I had an interesting discussion today in IRC I'm summarizing here in order to clarify some sticky points. I had recently pushed a new tutorial that included an image I took of a friend. Michael had concerns about the use of this image and the

Re: [Gimp-developer] wgo, model releases, and cc licensing

2013-09-27 Thread Pat David
IANAL, but I think the rule of thumb for CC is that you should have all the requirements for a traditional copyright covered first. If you hold the copyright, then you're entitled to re-license your stuff with more permissive licenses like Creative Commons. This was my understanding also, the