[cc-community] public performance and GPL

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Jan 11 05:30:36 EST 2012


On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:12:58 -0500
Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:37 PM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
> > But with a song, isn't the performance the covered work? (in this context. If
> > not, can you give an example from the code world where the output would be
> > the covered work and then a similar example from the music or art world?)
> 
> Performing a score would be analogous to compiling source code.  A
> performance of a score would be analogous to the binary compiled from
> source code.
> 
> Transmitting that performance/binary in a way which *enables* others
> to make a copy, is conveying it.  (Surely transmitting a performance
> through FM radio enables others to make a copy.)

Not in the preferred form for modification.

Alan


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