[cc-community] Not sure does cc apply to a copy or 'original' work

shell_layer-creativecommons at yahoo.com.au shell_layer-creativecommons at yahoo.com.au
Mon Jun 2 07:05:06 EDT 2008


I know I've already put in my two cents, but here's some more:

CC licences follow copyright. Copyright restricts you from making a
copy of something. Copyright doesn't attach to ideas; if I tell you
about my idea, copyright doesn't affect whether you can write it
down. Copyright only applies to an expression of an idea - something
written, recorded, etc.

So, it is that expression of your idea - the photo, the CD, the
printed book - that you CC-license. The only reason that copyright
seems to attach to the idea is because it attaches to all expressions
of that idea, and all derivatives from those expressions, because
copyright applies automatically.

CC licences don't apply automatically; they only apply to copies
(expressions of your idea) when you apply them. Any copies that do
not have a licence applied are not licensed.

> But what is the "work" in this case? One does not copyright ideas,
> but
> only expressions of those ideas. The idea of an image is NOT the
> work,
> because the idea is not copyrightable.
> 
> Thus, some particular image IS the work.



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