[cc-community] What does NC means?

jonathon jonathon.blake at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 03:26:48 EDT 2007


Peter wrote:

> It's  entirely possible that two people, who have independently created
> two identical works, gets two separate copyrights - if the probability

The independent creation of NAS-27 and USB-4 is about as independent
as a class copying the notes the instructor wrote on the blackboard.

> double-creation is fair then that imply that the product has a low level
> of originality which in turn implies that the work fails to qualify for
> copyright protection.

Except both USB-4 and NAS-27 are under different copyrights, as different works.

> > Three notes in a musical composition can be enough for the work to be
> > a copyright violation.
> And? Wasn't that what I wrote?

Not really.  Because those three works can also be used to say it is a
derivative work.

> > The ND license does not grant that permission.
>  From the unported 3.0 BY-NC-ND:
>     1.
>a) to Reproduce the Work, to incorporate the Work into one or more
Collections, and to Reproduce the Work as incorporated in the
Collections; and,
b) to Distribute and Publicly Perform the Work including as
incorporated in Collections.

Which means that the score can not be converted to an MP3, because
that constitutes an adaption, _not_ a collection.

xan

jonathon


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