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- From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam AT codegnome.org>
- To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:34:38 -0800
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:57:48AM +0100, Peter Brink wrote:
> Actually, it's the tangible format that all Open Source/Open Content
> licenses seeks to "free" - ideas are always free for anyone to express
> as they wish.
If we're going to nit-pick, it is not freeing the tangible format. While
ideas are, strictly speaking, not copyrightable, their expression in a
fixed form *is*.
So, any discussion of this particular topic ought to keep in mind that
what's at issue is the "fixed form" and not the format. In other words,
I would suspect that text is a "fixed form," whether it's vanilla ASCII
or an OpenOffice zipped XML file. Once in a fixed form, the work is the
creator's regardless of the format.
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Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?,
Todd A. Jacobs, 12/01/2004
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Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?,
Ricardo Gladwell, 12/03/2004
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Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?,
Branko Collin, 12/03/2004
- Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?, Ricardo Gladwell, 12/03/2004
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Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?,
Greg London, 12/03/2004
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Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?,
Rob Myers, 12/03/2004
- Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?, Ricardo Gladwell, 12/03/2004
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Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?,
Greg London, 12/03/2004
- Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?, drew Roberts, 12/03/2004
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Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?,
Ricardo Gladwell, 12/03/2004
- Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?, Greg London, 12/03/2004
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Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?,
Rob Myers, 12/03/2004
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Re: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?,
Branko Collin, 12/03/2004
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