Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Chris Lott <chris.lott AT gmail.com>]

On 10/22/05, Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se> wrote:
> Nope, quite the opposite, a collection of works (the text and the photos
> are separate works) need not use the same license elements, or indeed be
> licensed under any kind of license at all. In 4.a we find that "[y]ou
> may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly
> digitally perform the Work only under the terms of this License..." but
> also that "[t]he above applies to the Work as incorporated in a
> Collective Work, but this does not require the Collective Work apart
> from the Work itself to be made subject to the terms of this License."

Ah, well now I'm glad I put "clear" in quotes :)

This does make me echo the same question, then: why are films
considered differently? In other words, what makes them other than
collective works (if they are)?

c