[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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