Development of Creative Commons licenses

[rob AT robmyers.org]

Quoting Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT zmsl.com>:

> Is the act of recording always considered a creative work? I'm a bit
> surprised that it's copyrightable.

I could not read a score and perform a piece of music. I could not operate a
mixing desk. So skill is involved in producing a recording, and the resulting
work will be new (ie original) and substantial (ie several minutes of sound,
several megabytes of data).

It will however be a derivative of the score.

Non-European readers can go now. :-)

In the UK, where recording copyrights are only 50 years, the (p) will last
considerably less than the (c) on the score. Unless the score was public
domain, eg a Mozart piece.

Arranging a score or remastering a recording may attract new copyrights. I
haven't figured out how that works yet. But there was an extremely stupid case
in the UK recently where a scholar hired by a classical recording 
company to do
some trivial work on an old score got copyright on the results.

I am not a lawyer, &c.

- Rob.