[cc-licenses] Clarification needed regarding collective works & derivative works in the context of podcasts / dj mixes
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Sat Sep 16 03:10:23 EDT 2006
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 03:56 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> This is about music released under *-*-noderivs. Do downloadable
> (podcasted) dj mixes (where one piece of music is usually crossfaded
> into another, played at a different pitch than the original and the
> pieces are usually not played in their entire length) constitute a
> collective work or a derivative work?
>
> If they are considered a derivative work, would playing the
> noderivs-pieces of music at their original pitch, without
> crossfading/mixing and in their entire length make it a collective work?
Here's what http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide says:
NoDerivatives - this license requires that any copy of the work
you make is verbatim; in other words, you may not change the
work, such as, for example, translating a textual work into
another language or dramatizing an existing work. You can,
however, still include a NoDerivatives licensed work as part of
another, larger work (known as “collective works”). For example,
you can include several pieces of music together to form a
collective work, as long as the work itself is unaltered. You
cannot, however, mash up a NoDerivatives-licensed recording with
another recording because that would constitute a derivative
work.
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