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  • From: "Sincaglia, Nicolas" <nsincaglia AT musicnow.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Case study: Magnatune
  • Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:41:24 -0600

Another mistake that is being made here is the definition of a derivative
work.

"The statutory definition of a 'derivative work' is extremely comprehensive,
including such things as translations, arrangements, dramatizations,
fictionalizations, films, recordings, abridgements, condensations, 'or any
other form in which a work may be recast, transformed or adapted'".

There is not mention of file formats, resolution or encoding schemes in the
law. It is not relevant to the law nor is it relevant to the CC licenses.

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: cc-licenses-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Rob Myers
Sent: Tue 11/22/2005 5:56 AM
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts
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Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Case study: Magnatune




On 21 Nov 2005, at 21:26, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Practical question: Are the WAV files automatically under the same
CC
> license?

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

No because they are different works.

The encoding of the same sounds will have different representations
as streams of numbers. Therefore they are different works, both
derivatives of the original recording or of the score if there is one.

"Hey, now, hey now, now."

MP3: 451365247426123624562467234
WAV: 985672485629581305487135713

Different derivatives of the same original (and if the MP3 is just a
derivative of the WAV the same applies).

- Rob.
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