Editing Creative Commons license (section)

=== ''Drauglis v. Kappa Map Group, LLC'' ===
In 2007, photographer Art Drauglis uploaded several pictures to the photo-sharing website Flickr, giving them the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License (CC&nbsp;BY-SA). One photo, titled "Swain's Lock, Montgomery Co., MD.", was downloaded by Kappa Map Group, a map-making company, and published in 2012 on the front cover of ''Montgomery Co. Maryland Street Atlas''. The text "Photo: Swain's Lock, Montgomery Co., MD Photographer: Carly Lesser & Art Drauglis, Creative Commoms {{sic}}, CC-BY-SA-2.0" was placed on the back cover, but nothing on the front indicated authorship.

The validity of CC BY-SA 2.0 as a license was not in dispute. CC&nbsp;BY-SA&nbsp;2.0 requires that the licensee use nothing less restrictive than the CC BY-SA 2.0 terms. The atlas was sold commercially and not for free reuse by others. The dispute was whether Drauglis' license terms that would apply to "derivative works" applied to the entire atlas. Drauglis sued the defendants in June 2014 for copyright infringement and license breach, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, damages, fees, and costs. Drauglis asserted, among other things, that Kappa Map Group "exceeded the scope of the License because defendant did not publish the Atlas under a license with the same or similar terms as those under which the Photograph was originally licensed."<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 18, 2015 |title=Memorandum Opinion |url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-dcd-1_14-cv-01043/pdf/USCOURTS-dcd-1_14-cv-01043-0.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921202242/https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-dcd-1_14-cv-01043/pdf/USCOURTS-dcd-1_14-cv-01043-0.pdf |archive-date=September 21, 2016 |access-date=August 29, 2016 |publisher=United States District Court for the District of Columbia |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The judge dismissed the case on that count, ruling that the atlas was not a [[derivative work]] of the photograph in the sense of the license, but rather a [[collective work]]. Since the atlas was not a derivative work of the photograph, Kappa Map Group did not need to license the entire atlas under the CC BY-SA 2.0 license. The judge also determined that the work had been properly attributed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Guadamuz |first=Andres |date=October 24, 2015 |title=US Court interprets copyleft clause in Creative Commons licenses |url=http://www.technollama.co.uk/us-court-interprets-copyleft-clause-in-creative-commons-licenses |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222123232/http://www.technollama.co.uk/us-court-interprets-copyleft-clause-in-creative-commons-licenses |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |access-date=10 December 2015 |website=TechnoLlama |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In particular, the judge determined that it was sufficient to credit the author of the photo as prominently as authors of similar authorship (such as the authors of individual maps contained in the book) and that the name "CC-BY-SA-2.0" is sufficiently precise to locate the correct license on the internet and can be considered a valid identifier for the license.<!--NB: The court found that it was a valid URN. But don't report this here because, in fact, it is not a URN (it doesn't follow the URN schema; see [[Uniform Resource Name]]). The court's reasoning was incorrect on a basic technical level, even if the legal outcome is reasonable--><ref name="University of Michigan Library" /><!--Self-published source, but nonetheless reliable as the author is an acknowledged subject-matter expert-->