Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Monday 05 June 2006 06:15 pm, Peter Brink wrote:
> Nancy Ide skrev:
> > Ok, let me clarify. I appreciate Drew's note and apologize if I was
> > overly defensive--I think I was responding to the "tea-inspiring"
> > note from earlier today.
> >
> > To clarify:  our use is this: we gather texts, "annotate" them with
> > linguistic information, and distribute them for use by mostly
> > researchers, but in a small number of cases, commercial enterprises,
> > which in turn consist mainly of publishers who are developing either
> > dictionaries or English-as-a-second language (ESL) texts. There are
> > two major uses: (1) use the texts to generate statistics about usage,
> > like, how many times a noun is followed by a verb, etc. (2) looking
> > for patterns, like how many times is " could care less" used instead
> > of "could not care less" in current usage. In case (1), the
> > researchers never even look at the text, they just generate
> > statistics from it. In case (2), most of the time a concordance,
> > consisting of a set of sentences, is looked at, say, to find all
> > occurrences of "could" followed within some number of words by
> > "care". The idea is to see how people use language. So, as an example
> > of a commercial use, a dictionary maker or an author an ESL textbook
> > might point out that "could care less" is more frequent than "could
> > not care less" in current usage. They might, in a rare instance, use
> > a sentence from one of the texts that was shown in the concordance to
> > use one of these constructions in their published text or dictionary.
>
> I really don't understand your problem. Why would your data-mining
> project violate anyones copyright? What is your infringement case, that
> is how do you think you would violate the copyright of the works you
> gather statistics from?

Peter,

I have been pondering that myself and have asked some more questions.

One thing I thought of is that they may consider that annotating the texts 
makes a derivative work and they may be right.

So, if this is one of the reasonings, this would be an issue with all ND 
licensed works, would it not.

I then wonder if you could create an annotation of a text and only distribute 
your annotation and not the underlying text. If you did this, would this be a 
copyright violation? It might indeed be a derivative work, but there would be 
nothing of the original work remaining. (Well, depending on what all is 
entailed in an annotation.) Again, IANAL. I tend to have ay more questions 
than answers.

>
> /Peter Brink

all the best,

drew
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