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  • From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] different license for different bitrate
  • Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:37:56 +0000

On Thu, 2006-14-12 at 23:31 +0900, wiki_tomos AT inter7.jp wrote:
> Hi. I guess the photos in your examples are not the same work
> in the strict legal sense. That's because the higher resolution
> photo contains more details, some of which are your creative
> expression of some idea. It is sort of like a synopsis of a novel
> is not the same work as the novel itself.

I think this is a tricky subject. One thing that is important to note is
that the lower-quality version is free to use in any way the license
permits -- including "cleaning it up" so it's comparable to the
higher-quality version.

For example, if I release a plain-text version of a document under a CC
license, but make people pay for the nicer-looking PDF version, I have
little grounds to complain if a licensee converts the plain-text version
to a similar or superior PDF version.

For some lossy compressed file formats (like most music or JPEG files),
this would be a difficult transformation to do, but it is a possibility.

~Evan


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