Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Hannes <hannes AT atalante.org>]

rob AT robmyers.org wrote:

> Quoting Hannes <hannes AT atalante.org>:
>
> > I think many people are drawn to the CC licenses because they aren't
> > forced to read the full legal code to get an understanding of how the
> > license works. My notion is that people who have not read the legal code
> > in detail and who know nothing of sync licenses and the like assume that
> > movies are handled as other collective works. That's why I see a problem
> > in that movies are an exception, and that it's not made clear in the
> > summary.
>
>
> Are movies collective works in law? It would be strange if they were.

Sorry, that's not what I meant to imply. I'm definitely not a lawyer and 
I know little of licenses in general. I've recently become interested in 
CC because I like how they try to make their licenses available to 
common people like me who don't have time to read and interpret page 
after page of legal codes (or learn how to write them myself).

All I want is to avoid misunderstandings, because I had personally not 
understood that movies were considered a derivative work if used 
together with a CC licensed musical composition or sound recording.

Hannes