Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>]

On Tue, 2004-07-12 at 11:12 +0100, Branko Collin wrote:
> > Stories, movies, songs, don't segment nicely.
> > You need an author or a director running the show.
> > More contributers can make the result _worse_.
> > A movie segments with a lot of work, and reassembly
> > usually shows the splice marks. You can tell the
> > work of one director from another just by looking
> > at a single scene.
>
> Stories can gain in the telling too; a good story-teller can 
> incorporate a lot of disparate, clunky bits and smooth over these 
> rough patches, to end up with a better story.
>
> I wrote comics, often in a group, and although, yes, it does help 
> consistency, a lot, if one single person writes the final script, it 
> does not mean a group cannot write comics. 
You inadvertently brought up a really great point. Consider another example:

Alice writes a novel and publishes it under an Attribution license.

Bob translates it into German.

Charlie turns the German translation into a comic book -- and makes 10 more issues, after he's finished with where Alice left off.

Diane makes a short animated film using the characters from Charlie's comic.

Edie makes an album of acoustic songs based on Diane's film.

Fred remixes the songs and makes a new album, and Greta does a choreographed ice show set to the remixes.

And so on. And so on. And so on.

A derivative work isn't necessarily a modified version of the original. In fact, it most often is not.

~ESP

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