[cc-licenses] different license for different bitrate

Evan Prodromou evan at prodromou.name
Thu Dec 14 13:37:56 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-14-12 at 23:31 +0900, wiki_tomos at inter7.jp wrote:
> Hi. I guess the photos in your examples are not the same work 
> in the strict legal sense. That's because the higher resolution 
> photo contains more details, some of which are your creative 
> expression of some idea. It is sort of like a synopsis of a novel 
> is not the same work as the novel itself. 

I think this is a tricky subject. One thing that is important to note is
that the lower-quality version is free to use in any way the license
permits -- including "cleaning it up" so it's comparable to the
higher-quality version.

For example, if I release a plain-text version of a document under a CC
license, but make people pay for the nicer-looking PDF version, I have
little grounds to complain if a licensee converts the plain-text version
to a similar or superior PDF version.

For some lossy compressed file formats (like most music or JPEG files),
this would be a difficult transformation to do, but it is a possibility.

~Evan


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