Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>]

drew Roberts skrev:
> > A book, a pdf-file, a text-file or an openoffice-file containing the
> > same expression are all _copies_ of the same work.
>
>
> This would be nice if really so, (and I am not saying it is not so) but then I 
> am confused as to how, say someone who publishes a fake book containing 
> public domain songs can claim much of a copyright in anything. Especially 
> sine they imply that the whole shebang is copyrighted. Can someone who knows 
> comment on this?

If I create a collection of public domain texts, I could claim a 
copyright on my _selection_ of texts. The selection would be copyright 
protected, provided of course that the selection in itself is a result 
of a creative act. The copyright status of the _individual_ texts would 
not be altered.

/Peter Brink