Admittedly, it sucks at the moment, but I've written out a rough draft of the Free Animation License.
Have a looksee; it will certainly change with further additions.
Also, this is meant to cover any imagery that may be used in an animation or slideshow, hence the inclusion of several different image media. However, I especially intend this to be used for SVG animations, since such animations are completely text-based and text-editable (in other words, you should pull up an SVG file like this and open up the "Page Source" window for it in either Firefox or Opera).
In other words, this license is meant to be more like a combination of the GNU Free Documentation license (GFDL, used for text publications, especially Wikipedia) and the Free Art license when applied to text-based graphic animation (2D or 3D), and less like any of the Creative Commons licenses, which have found greater exposure as licenses of choice for those who want free publicity for, I guess you could call it, "binary media", or media that is processed and manipulated by the machine (most music and graphics files) rather than by text (anything XML based).
Have a looksee; it will certainly change with further additions.
Also, this is meant to cover any imagery that may be used in an animation or slideshow, hence the inclusion of several different image media. However, I especially intend this to be used for SVG animations, since such animations are completely text-based and text-editable (in other words, you should pull up an SVG file like this and open up the "Page Source" window for it in either Firefox or Opera).
In other words, this license is meant to be more like a combination of the GNU Free Documentation license (GFDL, used for text publications, especially Wikipedia) and the Free Art license when applied to text-based graphic animation (2D or 3D), and less like any of the Creative Commons licenses, which have found greater exposure as licenses of choice for those who want free publicity for, I guess you could call it, "binary media", or media that is processed and manipulated by the machine (most music and graphics files) rather than by text (anything XML based).
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This, of course, is opposed to the Piracy rights side of the argument, which is currently helping fight for the life of fair use in the courts. Such a fight is probably the only remaining bastion of the piracy rights activists and concerned parties due to the already-toxic atmosphere that prevails here in the U.S. concerning intellectual property; this atmosphere (artificially and superficially) protects the corporate distributors and owners and endangers everyone else, from the pirates to mere users of songs by Prince.
I would like to see the pirates here in the U.S. fight back and re-gray the intellectual property arena so that such features as "fair use" are protected for future utilization, but I think that the free/open media content licenses that currently exist need to arm the content to the teeth and set some borders - no - wired fences around them. Then the pirates will know where the Commons is entrenched and from where the oncoming corporate bodies are raiding, and will be compelled to make new strategies to beat the corporations back.
I may add a few caveats for copyrighted panorama that is given permission to photograph or visually depict in a recognizable manner by the owner(s) of the included building or work, but the copyrighted logo inclusion thing sounds a bit like the advertising clause in the earlier BSD licenses.