Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Wrye Modder <wrye_modder AT yahoo.com>]

It seems that your movie will be a derivative work,
and thus, not only must you allow people to create
derivative works, but also you must release it under
the 2.5 by-sa license. (I.e., you're not just
physically including the license on the DVD, but
you're actually releasing the DVD *under* the 2.5
by-sa license.) One of things that this implies is
that anyone who receives your DVDs can themselves make
and sell copies of them for their own profit. Of
course, if you're basically just recouping your
copying and distribution costs, then this shouldn't be
a problem in practice.

Movie as a derivative work (from section 1b of 2.5
by-sa 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."

IANAL, and I'm new to the list, so perhaps someone
will correct me, but that seems pretty clear from the
license text.

Cheers,
..Wrye

--- Douglas Mills <dmills AT uiuc.edu> wrote:

> This seems basic but I'm new and not finding this
> elsewhere.  I'm  
> creating soccer highlight videos to be distributed
> via DVD for a  
> small cost to families of our soccer team.  I want
> to use music  
> licensed with a cc attribution/share-alike license. 
> My understanding  
> then is that (provided it's not a "noncommercial"
> license) I can sell  
> my DVDs BUT must allow others to make derivative
> works from them if  
> they so choose, and, in fact, need to include the
> Creative Commons  
> license somewhere in my work (a read me file on the
> DVD?).   Am I  
> missing anything or misunderstanding anything? 
> Thanks for any  
> clarification on this.
> 
> Doug
> 
> Douglas Mills <dmills AT uiuc.edu>
> Computer Assisted Instruction Specialist
> CITES Educational Technologies
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


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