[cc-community] Copyright enforcement and CC BY-NC licenses

Peter Brink peter.brink at brinkdata.se
Sat Aug 2 18:58:34 EDT 2008


jonathon skrev:
> 
> Under US law, one is automatically allowed to make derivatives,
> provided the appropriate royalties/permissions are obtained.  In other
> countries, the situation is more or less the same.  (The major
> difference is whether or not the derivative work affects the moral
> rights of the content creator.)
> 

In fact the "normal" situation is that you are allowed to make 
derivatives (adaptations) without any kind of permission and the creator 
of the derivative work gets 100% of the copyright, but he needs 
permission from the copyright holder of the "original" work to publish 
and distribute his adaptation. In a common law jurisdictions you need 
permission to create adaptations.

/Peter Brink


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