[cc-community] Identi.ca - my new Creative-Commons-enabled microblogging service

Robert Atwood (lists) lists at atwood.org.uk
Wed Jul 9 17:07:01 EDT 2008


Terry Hancock wrote:
> drew Roberts wrote:
>> One of the problems I see is actually quoting something from outside of the 
>> system. 
> 
>> I have a song lyric, three verses and a chorus. License; cc BY-SA.
>>
>> Over time, I end up quoting the whole thing but only ever one line at a time. 
>> So single lines are BY but the song is BY-SA. Can someone take all of the BY 
>> licensed lines and treat the song as BY?
> 
> These are actually general conceptual problems with copyright, they
> apply to pretty much all works. E.g. suppose I give you a work under the
> By-SA license. By a startling coincidence it happens to contain all of
> the words of "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke, just in a
> different order. Now, you have the right to derive works from the work I
> have given you, but by the license, you must apply my license and
> attribution to it. In principle, you could, through a series of
> modifications recover "Rendezvous with Rama" from my text 

That really reminds me of the story "Pierre Menard, Author of the 
Quixote" by Jorge Luis Borges! That author, Menard,  manages to write 
identical words to Cervantes' work .. and Borges writes a critical 
review of this (fictional) creation as a different work, with different 
context ...




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