[cc-community] Use cases for cc by-sa compatibility with GPL

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu Jan 5 19:03:48 EST 2012


On Thursday 05 January 2012 15:57:28 Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:11:26 -0500
>
> drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 January 2012 14:09:27 Alan Cox wrote:
> > > CC doesn't deal with physical objects however and isn't intended to.
> >
> > I would think that cc deals with anything that the law gives a copyright
> > to. Doesn't a sculpture get a copyright.
>
> I am quoting what I have been told several times when I have contacted
> creative commons about problems in this area. So unless official policy
> has changed my understanding is that this is correct.

So, could someone from CC please clear this up? Am I really forbidden from 
painting a mural on a wall and putting a BY-SA license on it?

Or are you talking physical objects as in a chair or a table or something like 
that? (And to the CC person who answers the above, how is this supposed to 
work in general?)

all the best,

drew



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