Development of Creative Commons licenses

[David B Harris <dbharris AT eelf.ddts.net>]

Hey guys :) Please CC: me, I'm not subscribed to this list.

I'm working on a book with Wiley, and I'm trying to get them to include
an Appendix which will be licensed under the Creative Commons ShareALike
license.

However, before I put much effort into it, I decided to go ahead and
read the license text itself, and I have a question.

Paragraph 1a clearly defines that a collective work is treated
differently from a derivative work, and defines what constitutes a
"collective work." I'm worried, however, that the book I'm working on
wouldn't constitute a collective work.

The book will be between 800 and 1100 pages, of which about 20 pages
will be this ShareALike-licensed appendix. The copyright on the appendix
will be held by me, and the copyright on the rest of the book will be
held by Wiley.

But in paragraph 1a, it defines a collective work "as a periodical
issue, anthology or encyclopedia, in which the Work in its entirety in
unmodified form, along with a number of other contributions ..."

The bit that I'm worried about is the specificity of the examples
(periodical, anthology, or encyclopedia) - the book matches none of
these. Now, I understand these are just examples. But it goes on to more
specifically define a collective work as a work which includes the
ShareALike-licensed work in along with *a number* of other
contributions.

In my case, there will only be one other contribution I believe.

Thoughts?

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