Thread:Licensing practicalities (1)

The ideal is to only make available / reuse material which is fully open (public domain, GNU or CCO), however there is a lot more material available under 'slightly' more restrictive terms such as CC-BY and so we are likely to need to handle different kinds of licensing for different elements of an open course. So here are some of the questions that arise:

1. How can we acknowledge any licensing forms (including required attributions) on the page in such a way that they do not detract from the readability of the page? I notice the captioning used for images but segments of text drawn from mutliple sources are more complex. Is it sufficient to do an endpoint list of contributors rather than acknowledging sources for each sentence / para / section?? Or do we need to enter the world of electronic footnotes?

2. How many generations does CC-BY apply to? If I make a CC-BY resource, a 2nd person remixes it and melds it with another CC-BY source, and puts a CC-BY on that product, which later gets subsumed into another resource created, are all generation of contribuors acknowledged ad infinitum?

3. ALL graphics we use have to be open. By design, organisational logos are copyrighted material and so there can be no logos of contributing organisations. Right?