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Re: [cc-licenses] "commercial" use of Att/Share-alike materials

From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] "commercial" use of Att/Share-alike materials
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:19:22 -0400

On Sun, 2005-23-10 at 12:14 +0200, Peter Brink wrote:

If a work reuses expressions from another work that are
not in themselves works then the result is _not_ a derivative work.

I'm pretty sure that's not true, at least for US law. If you take characters, motifs, themes, extended quotes (beyond fair use), or other parts of a Work and use them to create a new work, that new work is a Derivative Work.

~Evan

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