From what I understand from our lawyer friends, CC means that your content is free for redistribution, mash-up and re-use.

Now the main problem is that much of our content — esp. when it comes to product shots and pictures that we put up — is not CC compliant. The vendor companies might let us use their product photos but that doesn’t mean that they allow their photos to be used or tampered by others via our
website (which CC implies).

I think it’s semantic legalese and very unlikely anything will happen, but I have to concur with the group that it adds unnecessary complication.

I think your workaround solution is possible — label some parts as CC and others as not. However, this needs to be applied to every article and the content looked at — a pain in terms of formatting in practice. It’s difficult when there are many different writers contributing.

Thus, in view of practical implementation, we put it to a vote and it was suggested that the site CC label be taken down.

Does it mean CC and non-CC content are mutually exclusive?

Can you like label the vendor images non-CC?