[FM Discuss] Final Image Licensing for "E-Book Enlightenment"

[Rebecca Hargrave Malamud]

Greetings -

Oceana finalized the cover this week, now entitled "E-Book 
Enlightenment: Reading and Leading with One Laptop Per Child" based on 
the cover selection of the child and the laptop:

http://www.ruraldesigncollective.org/mosh/ebook.enlightenment.png  

We had a session on licensing this Hacker Wednesday which raised some 
questions:

1. Can the images used on the cover have a different license than the 
interior illustrations (let's say GPLII for the cover to support the 
precedent at FLOSS Manuals, and perhaps Creative Commons cc by-nc-sa and 
cc by-nc-nd on the interior)? We thought it might be interesting to link 
to CC licenses within the text on the FM site if it is agreeable with 
the author and the FM team.

2. Can the images be released as GPLII for the 72dpi/600px versions used 
by FLOSS Manuals, yet something different for the full resolution 
versions? What if the artist wanted to make a poster or something along 
those lines with the full resolution images?

3. Will Booki support per-object licensing in the future, or will the 
license always apply to the entire book?

Many of these questions are raised out of the course of our internal 
collaborative process (for instance, the artist has created images that 
the book designer may not use, but we are still contemplating releasing 
them through our RDC site).

Rest assured, we have no shortage of creativity or curiosity at #rdcHQ! 
  :-)

Thank you!

Rebecca Malamud
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