Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Monday 21 November 2005 04:26 pm, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I assume you're familiar with the CC-friendly record label, Magnatune:
>
> http://magnatune.com/
>
> They offer free MP3s of all their albums under a Creative Commons
> license and you can buy CD-quality WAV files.
>
> Practical question:  Are the WAV files automatically under the same CC
> license?

My take is that unlees you have a license or some text somewhere to the 
effect 
that the wav is under the same license, it would be dangerous to assume that 
it is.

Along similar lines, I am putting 800x600 pictures here:

http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145

under CC BY-SA

while putting higher resolution versions here:

http://www.lulu.com/zotz

for sale under an all rights reserved license with the understanding that as 
I 
reach certain dollar levels I will move the higher resolution photos over to 
the BY-SA license.

Think of mp3 as low res and wav as high res and I think you would see why 
someone might not want this "automaticly under the same license" idea to fly.

You could even give a text file to party A with a CC BY-SA license and to 
party B with an all rights reserved license. Party B might know about party 
A's license, but unless they can get a copy from A or someone else A has 
distributed to, they would not to my mind be able to pretend they have the 
BY-SA licensed version. (Anyone see where I can be wrong in this thought?)

>
> The two downloads are the same album and only differ in the quality and
> the format. I think this is an interesting question, and I hope someone
> has an answer. You can think of other cases where the same question
> might arise.
>
> Another example, say I write a user guide for OpenOffice.org. I give you
> the guide in PDF format under a CC license, and if you like it I'll sell
> you the editable version (OpenDocument format) for $2. Is the editable
> version automatically under the same CC license?
>
> Another example, can I say that I'll give you the user guide (above) as
> a PDF file under the CC-BY-NC or as an ODF file under CC-BY-SA? (notice,
> two imcompatible licenses).
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.

all the best,

drew
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