[ARCHIVED] Containment Breach Movie

Containment Breach Movie

Anborough 14 Jun 2014 07:51

http://cybergamingstudios.deviantart.com/art/Auditions-456767694?offset=0#comments

My girlfriend sent me this, and I noticed that the group put a copyright stamp on the page for their SCP Containment Breach movie. Doesn't this violate the CC License on multiple levels? I'm not entirely sure, so I'm going to leave this here so the rest of staff (and the License Team) can get a good look at it.

Also, Markiplier? Seriously?

Re: Containment Breach Movie

(account deleted) 14 Jun 2014 12:54

Oh my. Yes, it does. I'll e-mail them in a moment.

Sent the following

Dear Mr. Reynolds,

My name is [Gaffney], and I am head of the licensing team at the SCP Foundation. We noticed that you've announced auditions for your planned movie. This is fine, and we wish you the best of luck. However, please remember that the "SCP Foundation logo" as well as SCP Containment breach, are covered under CC-BY-SA 3.0. This means that while you are free to use the content without charge or permission, all your work that uses CC material becomes CC itself, and must be labelled and attributed as such. Therefore, there's no basis for the use of the copyright symbol for the flier. A more in-depth guide to the issue can be found here: http://www.scp-wiki.net/licensing-guide

Feel free to contact me or another member of site staff if you have further questions.

If I was incorrect, please correct me.

What makes this doubly stupid is that we already went over this six months ago.

response:

Thank you for contacting me and as such from the past, we still understand the terms and conditions. There are a few things which will be edited to meet requirements, however my PC isn't in service until 17 - 22.

As we're still in early days with the film, once we created the film. We'll be placing links and websites to lead people to your Wikipedia and the game itself. Also after its (if) been shown on the big screens, we be putting it on DVD, which on behalf place a leaflet inside of DVD case with everything needed.

Thank for your wishes to us and really hope this goes well for both us and your team, as the scp containment Breach needs more credit for a great game and reading source.

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Re: Containment Breach Movie

spikebrennan 14 Jun 2014 20:13

Your proposed message is half right. You are correct to point out to them that their work is subject to CC 3.0 and that they must act accordingly.

But I believe you are incorrect in saying that they can't use the copyright symbol. They can. The work is, in fact, entitled to and subject to copyright under US copyright law and, I think, the Berne Convention. But what they are not allowed to do is say "all rights reserved", because they're not. Because CC 3.0.

Caveat: it's been more than 15 years since I took my copyright law class, and the law may have changed.

Re: Containment Breach Movie

Eskobar 14 Jun 2014 21:37

If I'm not mistaken from my reading of the license text, you are correct that there is a copyright involved. CC-BY-SA 3.0 is a contract by the creator of a work licensed therein, where the creator agrees to allow others to share the work and create derivatives given the terms of the license. The License Grant section of the license specifically states:

Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) license to exercise the rights in the Work as stated below:

(followed by the things you're allowed to do with the work — distribute, remix, adapt, transform, etc.)

In other words, the existence of the copyright held by the creator of the work is what allows the creator to license the work under CC in the first place. I'll admit that they could probably have been a little clearer about the matter, since people can easily draw the same conclusion of "oh, c-with-a-circle-around-it = 'all rights reserved'", but to the best of my understanding, the creators of this film will hold the copyright to it and hold the copyright to any work product relating to it. They simply cannot use their rights as copyright holders in a way that is contradictory to CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Caveat: _{i'm a fucking education grad student, who the fuck decided i was qualified for this shit, i'm just reading what the license says}