[cc-community] Question to the Group about Public Domain

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Fri Mar 20 21:43:28 EDT 2009


On Friday 20 March 2009 21:16:21 Art Neill wrote:
> That said, the specifics of your use would determine if any possible
> rights are created.  However, even if you add material or make enough
> changes to constitute a derivative work, any copyright you might get
> would be limited to the subsequent expression you contributed/added.
> Therefore any Creative Commons license would be limited as well to the
> subsequent expression.

One thing I think I run into though is that people slap copyright notices on 
such "derived" works without indicating what they are claiming copyright on. 
This is a major pain.

drew


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