Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT zmsl.com>]

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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