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  • From: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT zmsl.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Case study: Magnatune
  • Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:23:09 +0000

drew Roberts wrote:
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.

I'm not assuming anything, and I'm not trying to get permission to distribute an album I just bought to more than 3 friends. I just think I hit an interesting question whose answer I don't know, and an important real-life scenario.

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.

I have no doubt. But the question is whether the idea is correct.

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?)

This depends on whether the license is attached to the *file* or the "work". And this is ultimatley the question I'm trying to ask.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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