Comments on: Creative Commons and photography rights. http://dylan.tweney.com/2006/03/19/creative-commons-and-photography-rights/ if you're bored, you're not paying attention Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scot Hackerhttp://dylan.tweney.com/2006/03/19/creative-commons-and-photography-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-1342 Scot Hacker Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:54:09 +0000 http://dylan.tweney.com/2006/03/19/creative-commons-and-photography-rights/#comment-1342 <i>but this is one case where Creative Commons is actually more restrictive than the general law.</i>I would say that it is not CC itself that is more restrictive, but the guy's personal request -- since he went to the trouble of shaving it into his head, he wanted to use his head as a vehicle to get people out there and using the CC web site, displaying the logo, etc. CC licenses can be pretty much anything you want - this was a special case of a guy making a special request, not a restriction built into CC. but this is one case where Creative Commons is actually more restrictive than the general law.

I would say that it is not CC itself that is more restrictive, but the guy’s personal request — since he went to the trouble of shaving it into his head, he wanted to use his head as a vehicle to get people out there and using the CC web site, displaying the logo, etc. CC licenses can be pretty much anything you want – this was a special case of a guy making a special request, not a restriction built into CC.

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