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

Peter Brink peter.brink at brinkdata.se
Sat May 31 09:22:09 EDT 2008


shell_layer-creativecommons at yahoo.com.au skrev:
> 
> Anyone feel free to correct me, but as I understand it, the CC
> licence only applies to the lower-quality version. You don't attach a
> licence to all copies of the work, you attach it to one copy (in this
> case, the lower quality one).
> 
> It would be perfectly reasonable to, eg, release low-quality photos
> under a CC licence (probably a noncommercial one), then charge money
> for high-quality copies. So, obviously the high-quality copies don't
> automatically get CC-licensed. Search for 'CCplus' on the Creative
> Commons site, and it's clear that different copies of material can
> have different permissions attached.
> 

Actually, what you license is the work. The term "work" is defined in 
art. 1.h of the license. In this case the work is the photo. All copies 
of the work are thus licensed not just the copy that has a license 
statement attached to it. What CCplus do is to make it simple to dual 
licensing works.

/Peter Brink



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