Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Terry Hancock <hancock AT anansispaceworks.com>]

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.

Okay, another case:

I write a novel as a raw text file on computer. I sell copies of this
novel under an ARR "license".

I then run the novel through an automatic filter which removes every
other chapter and all remaining vowels. There is no creative activity in
this process -- it's completely automated, and takes perhaps 5-20 lines
of Python code to implement. I license the reduced work online
under CC-By-SA.

Do people who have downloaded that work have the right to purchase the
novel, copy its text, and use it under the By-SA terms?

This seems implausible to me, but it is pretty much the same as the
image case you describe (a lossy, but uncreative transformation).

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock AT AnansiSpaceworks.com)
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