[cc-community] What does NC means?

Peter Brink peter.brink at brinkdata.se
Sun Sep 16 15:56:57 EDT 2007


jonathon skrev:
> Peter wrote:
> 
>> Neither of your examples involves the creation of a derivative work.
> 
> Both of them are edge cases.

That might be the case in the US. It's not necessarily so elsewhere...

> 
> Both of them involve who has a copyright on what.  Both of them also
> involve who owns what rights to which parts of the work.
 >
 > Both of them also involve rights that are not covered by the CC
 > license --- which gets into the "derivative works" aspect.
 >

The arrangement of a musical score is, if it's at all copyrightable, a 
work on it's own. It's not a derivative work. Html-code are as a general 
rule not copyrightable... A sound recording is not a work (or a 
derivative work), it's protected by a so called neighbouring right. That 
right exists independent of any copyrights to the work being recorded. 
The CC licenses includes the right to make recordings. The license also 
demands that such recordings are offered under the same terms as the 
work being recorded was.

/Peter Brink




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