Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Lorenzo De Tomasi <lorenzo.detomasi AT creativecommons.it>]

Ciao,
I forward a mail I have sent some months ago :-)
I have updated it with some other questions...

Thanks for your help...

Inizio del messaggio inoltrato:

> Da: "Lorenzo De Tomasi" <lorenzo.detomasi AT creativecommons.it>
> Data: 20 novembre 2004 0:01:42 CET
> A: "Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Cc: lessig AT pobox.com
> Oggetto: What exactly is a derivative work?
> Rispondere-A: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> I have some doubts about derivative works and I would like to solve them
> with some examples and questions.
> - - - - -
> If I choose a CC-Attribution license you are free to make derivative works.
> "Derivative Work" means a work based upon the Work or upon the Work and
> other pre-existing works, such as a translation, musical arrangement,
> dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording,
> art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which the
> Work may be recast, transformed, or adapted, except that a work that
> constitutes a Collective Work will not be considered a Derivative Work for
> the purpose of this License. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Work is a
> musical composition or sound recording, the synchronization of the Work in
> timed-relation with a moving image ("synching") will be considered a
> Derivative Work for the purpose of this License.
> - - - - -
> What do you mean exactly with "or any other form in which the Work may be
> recast, transformed, or adapted"?
> Can you make little modifications, like changing only few words of my
> original work? or you can make only substantial modifications?

> For example if I take an original text by Richard Stallmann released under a
> CC-Attribution, can I change only the words 'software' with the word 'work'
> and add the text "This is an article derived from the original work by
> Richard Stallmann"?

The correction of a draft under a CC-by can be made? This can be frequent on a wiki... What if this wiki is under a Ccpl?

> If you can make only substantial modifications, what exactly is a
> substantial modification? What does differentiate a substantial modification
> from a little modification?
>
> I can take a whole article under the CC-Attribution and publish it in a
> collection followed by an article of comments written by me.
> But can I integrate the first article with my comments quoting the parts and
> citing the writer each time? like
> - - - - -
> Tito wrote: "I think bla bla bla"
> and I think bla bla bla.
> Then Tito says "bla bla bla"
> and I say bla bla bla
> - - - - -
> ?
>
> And can I delete every citation of the original author? like
> - - - - -
> I think bla bla bla [using exactly the same words of Tito] and bla bla bla
> [writing original ideas].
> - - - - -
Is it sufficient that I add only a bibliography citing Tito's original work?

> Can I use the same text written by Tito to explain exactly the opposite?
> - - - - -
> I dont think that bla bla bla [where bla bla bla is the original text by
> Tito]
> - - - - -
>
> Other examples and questions may follow :-)
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Ciao,
> Lorenzo
>
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