Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Friday 02 March 2007 06:10 am, Peter Brink wrote:
> Rob Myers skrev:
> > One thing I'm curious about is whether including (e.g.) a short poem
> > makes an essay a derivative of it, or whether that kind of quotation has
> > the same aggregate/collective status as a photographic "quotation".
>
> As far as civil law jurisdictions goes I would assume that the answer is
> no.
>
> drew Roberts skrev:
>  > Does fixing spelling, punctuation, and other minor things make
>  > derivative or a cleaned up copy.
>
> AFAIK in civil law jurisdictions the answer is no. In the U.K. probably
> yes. In the U.S.? I'm not sure, it would depend I guess on the level of
> creativity involved and on the amount of editing done.
>
>  > Would a collage make a derivative work or a collection of cropped
>  > works?
>
> If you use parts of other pictures to create a new picture, then in
> civil law jurisdictions the answer is yes.

Thanks for the answers, can you define what a new picture is in this context? 
What if there is just parts of other pictures jumbled together?
>
>
> /Peter Brink

all the best,

drew
-- 
(da idea man)