Comments on: Wikipedia and the GFDL http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/keito/2008/01/01/wikipedia-and-the-gfdl/ Exploring free licenses and their practical uses Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:21:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Roy Roebuck http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/keito/2008/01/01/wikipedia-and-the-gfdl/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Roy Roebuck Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:21:15 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/keito/2008/01/01/wikipedia-and-the-gfdl/#comment-13 In my limited understanding of the whole CC topic, since the CC-BY-SA license is of copyrighted material (whether legally registered as copyright or not), can't the copyrighted material also be separately licensed for non-BY-SA use, such as a commercial variant that is rebranded and includes added value? If the above is a correct assessment of rebranding copyrighted material, even if under CC-BY-SA, how would this affect copyrighted material previously posted to Wikipedia, or future Wikipedia material, or alternatively, to the Citizentium material? In my limited understanding of the whole CC topic, since the CC-BY-SA license is of copyrighted material (whether legally registered as copyright or not), can’t the copyrighted material also be separately licensed for non-BY-SA use, such as a commercial variant that is rebranded and includes added value?

If the above is a correct assessment of rebranding copyrighted material, even if under CC-BY-SA, how would this affect copyrighted material previously posted to Wikipedia, or future Wikipedia material, or alternatively, to the Citizentium material?

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