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  • From: Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [cc-licenses] "Collective" vs "Derivative" was Re: "mere aggregation"
  • Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:27:37 -0500

I appear to have made a small faux pas in using GPL language in the first post. The CC licenses use the terms "Collective Work" and "Derivative Work" to talk about this issue.

My question remains pretty much the same, though:

When compositing several images into a single image file, can the whole still constitute a "collective" work? I'm thinking that it might depend on whether the images overlap (i.e. is part of an image obscured?)

Or perhaps the mere fact that they are in a single image file is sufficient to invoke the copyleft terms for the whole?

Terry Hancock wrote:
I'm creating a set of illustrations to go along with an article. Due
to the nature of the blogging software, it's desireable to minimize
the number of images. I often do this by using multiple images in
one, or "insets".
[...]
Does it make a difference whether the images overlap (as in an inset)
or are merely beside each other (an array)?

Just for reference, here's an existing example of what I mean by an
"array":


http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/files/nodes/1713/kusanagi_which_real.jpg

and here of "insets":

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/files/nodes/1366/fig_tucson2000.jpg

I'm interested both because I want to "do the right thing" with this project, and also because it's just an interesting question about CC copyleft.

Thanks,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock AT AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com





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