Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>]

wolfgang wander skrev:
> If you ..., BUILD UPON THIS WORK' which I clearly
> understand as an inclusion of my images in editorial content.

Well, that is a misunderstanding. In fact, (IMO) there are two false 
assumptions here.

A) When you use works (for example a text about racing cars and some 
photos of such cars) as building blocks to create a collective work, 
then the components used are treated as having independent copyrights. 
They might supplement each other but that doesn't make one or the other 
a derivative work. You of course need permission to copy and publish the 
works that makes up the collective work but that is granted by the 
license. An editor that uses your photos to supplement a text on a 
website does not build upon your work, he copies the photo but he does 
not adapt it.

B) The CC-licenses are designed to extend the scope of choices available 
for _creators_ and thereby indirectly extend the freedom of users to 
re-use. They are not designed to extend one creators control over other 
creators independent works.

/Peter Brink