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Re: derivatives of public domain works

From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: derivatives of public domain works
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:24:14 -0500

On Tue, 2005-25-01 at 19:00 -0800, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

Bryan L. Fordham wrote:
> I'm working on updating the language in a public domain book.
[...]
> I'd like to release the finished product under a CC license, but I'd 
> like to check and make sure that it's fine to do that with public domain 
> works.  I'm assuming it is, but figured I'd ask first

You can do anything you want with PD works, including CC license a 
derivative.

Note that the derivative has to be sufficiently transformed to merit copyright protection.

~Evan

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derivatives of public domain works, Bryan L. Fordham, 01/25/2005
- Re: derivatives of public domain works, Mike Linksvayer, 01/25/2005
  - Re: derivatives of public domain works, Rob Myers, 01/26/2005
  - Re: derivatives of public domain works, Evan Prodromou, 01/26/2005