Law Stack Exchange
Law Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [share-alike]

The share-alike tag is for questions about copyright licenses that require modified or derivative works to be released under the same or a related license, such as the Creative Commons -SA licenses. Such licenses are sometimes called 'copyleft" licenses.

5 questions
6
votes
3 answers

If an agreement puts some condition on a file, does the condition also apply to its content? (the content itself is under CC BY-SA)

Example: the Stack Exchange data dump has a new access agreement, which states: I understand that this file is being provided to me for my own use and for projects that do not include training a large language model (LLM), and that should I…
Franck Dernoncourt
  • 7,791
  • 4
  • 46
  • 91
2
votes
0 answers

Can I republish my derivative work using a new license?

Some background: the System Reference Document 5.1 ("SRD5") is an original work owned by Wizards of the Coast ("WotC"). WotC currently authorizes derivative works of SRD5 using two distinct licensing options: a share-alike license called the Open…
ikkyblob
  • 21
  • 1
1
vote
1 answer

Licensing material generated with ChatGPT

For a while now, there has been a lot of discussion about large language models such s ChatGPT of OpenAI. A major issue has been whether newly trained, open-source models can be used in a commercial setting or not if they were trained on synthetic…
Bram Vanroy
  • 111
  • 2
1
vote
1 answer

Copyright, Binary Code, and Share-Alike Clauses?

I do extensive personal work in the modding/romhacking space of games. This space is about taking existing commercial games and adding custom content or features to them, generally through unofficial means. These changes are then released as…
Justin Olbrantz
  • 141
  • 2
0
votes
1 answer

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5: Question

I have a question pertaining to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. Let's say I make a documentation-like website using information that came from articles licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.…
Greenreader9
  • 163
  • 5