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  • From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Copyright of derivative work released under a CC licence
  • Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:55:06 -0500 (EST)


Branko Collin said:
> The work in questions has two forms to it, namely the source code
> (which is, indeed, probably solely the 'property' of the author under
> US copyright law), and the way it renders to the screen.
>
> One could argue that HTML is not dependent on a physical medium, but
> surely the author made the template very much for a specific physical
> medium.

That could be. It would depend on how "artistic" the HTML is,
versus how "functional" it is. If the code is creating HTML
that renders into an already existing format, then no one can
really claim artistic control.

i.e. if this is for laying out a blog, which all have some fairly
common rendering on the screen, then it's probably more functional
than artistic.





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