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Please help me understand the following situation correctly:
I am an agent of a company that develops educational materials. Our company is a commercial for-profit company, we sell access to the materials developed by us. Some of our content is an adaptation of texts by other authors, available under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): the basis was taken from existing works, but they were adapted, revised, expanded and so on.
On our online platform, we link to the authors of the source materials, according to all citation rules. But now we want to protect all our content from unauthorized use. For this, we want to do a digital notary or deposit of all our content. And these materials partially include adaptations of other people's materials according to CC BY.
Taking all of the above into consideration, we have some questions:
1. Should we indicate as co-authors those people who own the CC BY license, when registering ownership of this material?
2. Should we additionally ask them for permission to use the material, and maybe to indicate them as co-authors?
3. Do we need to indicate the changes we made in comparison with the original work (someone else's, available on CC BY) and what level of details is needed (if needed)?
Thank you!
Please help me understand the following situation correctly:
I am an agent of a company that develops educational materials. Our company is a commercial for-profit company, we sell access to the materials developed by us. Some of our content is an adaptation of texts by other authors, available under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): the basis was taken from existing works, but they were adapted, revised, expanded and so on.
On our online platform, we link to the authors of the source materials, according to all citation rules. But now we want to protect all our content from unauthorized use. For this, we want to do a digital notary or deposit of all our content. And these materials partially include adaptations of other people's materials according to CC BY.
Taking all of the above into consideration, we have some questions:
1. Should we indicate as co-authors those people who own the CC BY license, when registering ownership of this material?
2. Should we additionally ask them for permission to use the material, and maybe to indicate them as co-authors?
3. Do we need to indicate the changes we made in comparison with the original work (someone else's, available on CC BY) and what level of details is needed (if needed)?
Thank you!
