[cc-community] Different licenses for different versions of a work
Nathan Yergler
nathan at creativecommons.org
Thu Jul 16 14:42:47 EDT 2009
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Tisza Gergő<gtisza at gmail.com> wrote:
> Authors sometimes offer an image in smaller resolution under a free CC license,
> and the full version under a noncommercial one. Is this practice legally solid?
> My impression always was that the license is bound to the abstract entity called
> "work", and specific images are only different formats of that, as far as they
It's probably worth noting that copyright is for a "fixed expression"
of an idea. The license relies on copyright, therefore it's not for
an abstract entity, it's for something tangible and fixed.
This seems to imply that the dual license approach is fine.
IANAL,
Nathan
> don't contain creative modifications. Doesn't this sort of dual-licensing
> practice present the danger that someone takes the full version for commercial
> use and says "hey, you licensed it under CC-BY! It's the same work!"?
>
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