Testing web and print-only elements

WEB AND PRINT The fact that the source photo lived on a website dedicated to images that were licensed for adaptation and reuse was important. What I wanted was not an image that I could use once and share only in limited contexts, but one that could take on a life of its own outside of my project.[1] As someone committed to the open scholarship and open pedagogy movements, I want my work in the archive and the classroom to be of use to other people. For this reason, I choose to publish this work under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, meaning that I grant others permission to copy and adapt my work as long as they observe some basic guidelines. First, the license requires that users provide an appropriate attribution that acknowledges their sources. Second, they must provide a link to the license and indicate what changes they have made to the text.

PRINT-ONLY Finally, the “share alike” clause states that if others adapt portions of this text and share them in any way—say, by excerpting one of my timelines for use in a textbook about Victorian novelists—I ask that users share the modified version of my work using the same permissions. Admittedly, I do sometimes qualify these permissions by adding additional restrictions for content that bears a more limited license.[2]

WEB AND PRINT However, for the most part, it is my goal to draw from source materials that are as easy for others to adopt and adapt as possible.[3]

  1. When scholars request copyright permissions for digital images, it is a common practice for organizations to ask how many copies of a text the author anticipates that they will create.
    WEB-ONLY In some circumstances, an author must make a second permissions appeal if they desire to produce additional copies. For organizations that charge licensing fees, as many do, requesting the ability to circulate as many copies of a text as desired is either prohibitively expensive or a complete non-starter. ↵
  2. For example, while my own CC-BY-SA license communicates to readers that they may add as many chickens as they want to the photographs I’ve created and shared in my text, I might include a Creative Commons-licensed photo that someone else had shared under a CC-BY-SA-ND license. This second license stipulates that the author does not want others to adapt or modify the work. By including the other creator's license next to their work, I inform my readers that they may not add chickens to the other photographer’s ND (No Derivatives) photograph. ↵
  3. As an added perk, including resources that are as permissibly licensed as possible reduces the risk that I will be sued. ↵

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