Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 02:17 pm, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 14:03 +0100, Peter Brink wrote:
> > A derivative work must be the result of a _creative act_ originating
> > from a human being. If a machine down- or upsamples a work there is no
> > creative act involved, it's a just a mechanical transformation. A
> > "thumbnail" is therefore a copy and not a derivative work.
>
> There is no such thing as "upsampling" so this logic cannot apply to
> versions of a work at higher resolution than offered.

Surely I can take a 1024X768 picture, double its dimensions and them massage 
the result to not be as pixelated.

I think this may be what people mean by upsampling.

all the best,

drew
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