Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Tue, 2005-22-11 at 16:20 -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
> 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.
Collection copyright (choosing the data) and transformation (casting into sheet-music format). That person could successfully challenge someone copying the book, but would have a harder time challenging a 4th-grade class singing "You are my Sunshine."

~Evan