[cc-licenses] multiple licenses of same image
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Wed Jan 17 22:52:21 EST 2007
Peter Brink wrote:
> If you call it upsampling, downsampling or sidesampling or whatever
> doesn't matter.
I think the point was that there is no non-creative way to convert a
low-resolution image to a high-resolution image. You must add
information to do that, and that implies some level of creativity.
> A "work" must be the result of a creative act - the same
> goes for derivative works. A mechanical transformation is in itself not
> a creative act, the result of such a transformation is a copy and not a
> derivative work. If I scan a picture and make two versions available,
> one in low resolution and one in high resolution, those two images are
> _copies_ of the _same work_.
Perhaps so. This seems like a plausible, but debatable legal theory. Can
we clarify what jurisdiction(s) you feel this applies to? Your email
address suggests Sweden (at least that's what I think "se" is, please
correct me if I'm wrong).
I know there are significant differences between US, Australia,
European, and Japanese copyright laws -- many of which reduce to
fundamentally different perspectives of the purpose and basis of copyright.
I'm not challenging you, but this is a potentially very important point,
as drew has observed, and there have been at least two long threads on
this subject coming to opposite consensuses. (!) So any point where a
disconnect can occur is probably worth exploring.
Cheers,
Terry
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