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What legal troubles would you be referring to, exactly?

The main reason why we Adm. want to get these things sorted is the fear of someone doing malice intent towards us and registering SB themselves and then prevent us to continue doing our works as a community we have been customed to do. Where as these fears are also quite far-fetched, but considering our history, they are not completely alien ones. The new website and its features are an investment of different caliber of what we have had before, so it would warant some level of more precautions to be made in order to secure our continuing future.

The issue to me, of course, is that these artists would use parts drawn by the rest of the members on this site. How do we sort that out?

Would seem to be a bit paranoid. After all, unless you want to trademark the concept of 2 pixel = 1 foot raster drawings nobody can stop you drawing.

We obviously came first to form the Shipbucket moniker but even the pioneers like MConrads were building on work done previously, in particular those RN drawings done over a decade ago by Unknown. All those surviving artworks now exist in the SB archive, I notice they have SB scale bars and titles (but not the copyright mark at the bottom), I can't remember if they always had that template or where pasted onto them when archived? If the former, then we owe the origins of the template to somebody else.

There are cases where that doesn't apply as certain drawings have parts that are all drawn by the artist who made the drawing. A good example is FD Scale drawings of ground vehicles such as armor, trucks, cars, buses and trains whose parts cannot be found in part sheets as parts for those kinds of drawings usually vary from vehicle to vehicle.

Hello -

I am an administrator of a website that specializes in non-commercial technical line drawings of ships and vehicles. We are exploring the use of a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license for our work, but require some assistance re: the proper license to use. If there is a forum or a better contact for these questions please let me know.

Our drawings make use of "parts" drawn by the community as a whole, but each individual ship is generally credited to one or two authors who draw the majority of it. The author credits are written on each drawing and the "template" each ship is placed into is assumed to provide credit to the rest of the community who contributed the small parts and other details. The template includes a watermark back to our site (www.shipbucket.com), but the author credits will generally only say "(Author 1 & Author 2)".

All of our work is of a non-commercial nature.

All of our work is available for other artists to freely remix and share, with the condition that they add their own name to the credit line (so if Author 3 modifies work by Author 1 & Author 2, the credit line becomes "Author 1 & Author 2 & Author 3"). Our rules require that all Shipbucket drawings be kept inside the "template" with its watermark to preserve crediting to our community as a whole.

Given these caveats, we have chosen the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license as the most applicable. We currently have our work governed under a "fair use agreement" that essentially outlines all the points above, and we are curious if we need to either remove our fair use agreement and replace it with the CC license, or keep it, and reference the CC license in our fair use wording. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Hi Ian,

I am not entirely certain I understand your question. Are you trying to determine which CC license would fit best with what you are trying to do? If so, BY-NC-SA does sound like a good fit, but please note that CC licenses do not enable creators to specify a particular way in which they must be attributed. In other words, while you could certainly state your preference that people use the template with watermark, someone who fulfilled all of the attribution requirements in the license but used a different format would still be in compliance with the license.

Please let me know if that helps answer your question, or how else we can help.
best,
Sarah