Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>]

On Tue, 2005-22-11 at 11:56 +0000, Rob Myers 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).
I don't think that compression or conversion between formats is sufficiently transformative to make a derivative work. The works are not two derivatives of an original; they are identical.

~Evan