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

["Guillermo Espertino (Gez)" <gespertino gmail com>]

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 cc-by-sa
> license I was applying to the entire work.  Mainly, did I have a model
> release for the woman in the photograph (I thought I did, but didn't
> apparently).

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.

But first make sure you have ALL the legal requirements for copyright 
covered. A portrait and most of the photos showing people faces require 
a model release if you want to present them as *your* work and protect 
them with a copyright.
In most countries (if not all) the copyright and similar intellectual 
property rights preceed any other right, so if you want to share (via PD 
or CC licencese) you have to legally own the stuff.

If you took images published under permissive licenses (PD or CC) for 
your work, you shouldn't worry. The model release and the ownership are 
responsability of whoever publised the images under those licenses. In 
that case you only have to honor the conditions of the published license.

Gez.