{"id":22111,"date":"2019-02-19T04:14:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T03:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=22111"},"modified":"2019-02-19T04:14:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T03:14:36","slug":"glamorous-gal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/glamorous-gal\/","title":{"rendered":"Glamorous GAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new type of Creative Commons \/ GPL -like content licence. The <a href=\"https:\/\/generalassetlicense.org\/\">General Asset License Information (GAL)<\/a> is specifically for&#8230; &#8220;digital assets, shared or sold with the intent of being used within larger works&#8221;.  Think low-poly 3D models for building new videogames with, that sort of thing.  <\/p>\n<p>As I read it (and I&#8217;m not a lawyer), GAL is not for final works.  Rather it permits use of what the digital entertainment production industries often call &#8216;assets&#8217;, &#8216;content&#8217;, &#8216;merchant resources&#8217;, &#8216;stock&#8217;, and similar terms. A videogame partly made with GAL assets could be sold commercially and protected as a commercial product in the market.  Even while the GAL parts of the game remained free for others to re-use again under GAL. The GAL seems to be aimed at allowing a creative maker to be generous with their free content, without forcing them to go to CC-BY or CC0.  Presumably GAL content would not be purloined, aggregated and sold on by the Alamy-like companies, since GAL would only permit re-use as a part of a larger indivisible whole product.<\/p>\n<p>Looks good to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new type of Creative Commons \/ GPL -like content licence. The General Asset License Information (GAL) is specifically &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/glamorous-gal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-general-observations","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}