Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

>>>>> "ML" == Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> writes:

    Me> * Which brings up the extremely interesting point of whether a
    Me> Web page is a composite or derivative work.

    ML> Interesting to the point of being non-interesting.  Like the
    ML> creator/contributor distinction, I think it can be argued
    ML> endlessly without arriving at a well-defined conclusion.

Well, it's not entirely abstract, as we've got a situation right now
with it on Wikitravel.

Our site has been mirrored by these folks:

    http://travel.new-frontier.info/

The copyright notice seems to distinguish between the decorative
framing navigation stuff and the "main content". The copyright notice
says:

"Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Zeeshan Muhammad. All rights reserved. Main
content is licensed under CCPL-sa, contributed by Wikitravel."

The "All rights reserved" part begs the question of whether any
particular page is a derivative work or a composite work.

I've got angry users on one hand, I've got a bemused downstream
distributor on the other. I could use some help.

~ESP

P.S. There are a couple of other problems with the mirror --
individual contributors aren't given attribution, for example. The
mirror owner is working on it, though.

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