[cc-community] What does NC means?
jonathon
jonathon.blake at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 16:47:19 EDT 2007
Peter wrote:
> An arrangement is, if it's at all copyrightable, a independent work. A piece of music is thus really three works. The lyric, the music (the notation) and the arrangement.
Four. You forgot the performer.
>But many (probably most) arrangements are so trivial (in sense that
they are very easy to independently double-create) that they fail to
qualify for copyright protection.
I'll just point to my favorite example of two works that are more or
less identical, USB-4 and NAS-27. They are enough to have separate
copyrights, but similar enough that a casual reader won't know the
difference. (Most scholars aren't able to tell which one they are
reading,without looking at the title.)
> Making minor changes (such as editing) to a work does not make the new version a derivative work - the changes need to be original.
Three notes in a musical composition can be enough for the work to be
a copyright violation.
> You do need permission to do the recording from the copyright holder of the work being recorded. Such a permission is given in the CC licenses.
The ND license does not grant that permission.
xan
jonathon
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