Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 05:18 pm, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> 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."

See my long winded reply to another post where I explain that one of the 
things they claim would infringe the copyrights they are claiming is a public 
performance of the songs.
>
> ~Evan
all the best,

drew
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