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

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Fri Jan 6 13:15:32 EST 2012


On 06/01/12 17:15, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> 
> My understanding is that yes, you can use Creative Commons to copyright
> copyrightable works that are immersed in physical space.  But it's not
> the actual physical object you're copyrighting, it's the creative work.
> That's not a Creative Commons restriction, that's a copyright one.

We went through this onlist with my "why can't I take the work off the
wall?" question last year (I forgot to say thank you to everyone who
responded to that at the time, so thank you everyone who responded...).

But I think this is different from the copyrightability of 3D objects,
which is based on their functional or decorative^D^Dcreative nature. The
Public Knowledge discussion of 3d printed "Settlers of Catan" game tiles
covers this well, although I'm not sure I follow all of their reasoning.

- Rob.


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