[Noisebridge-discuss] Press photos

Andy Isaacson adi at hexapodia.org
Wed Oct 13 20:27:23 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:33:50AM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> Andy Isaacson writes:
> > although press people generally want something licensable for commercial
> > distribution, so CC-BY-SA is not acceptable, IIUC.
> 
> Do you mean CC-BY-NC is not acceptable?

NC is pretty obviously not compatible with a commercial news
organization.
SA is probably too much work for them to comply with.

If the piece is syndicated, then the challenge of ensuring compliance
increases, and it becomes cheaper to just pay upfront for a license to
do whatever they want with the content.

-andy



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