Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

drew Roberts skrev:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 05:15 am, Antoine wrote:
> > > So, the BY-SA decided not to apply to collective works but the GPL
> > > decided to
> > > apply to collective works. ??? Is that right?
> > No.
> > "Collective works" and "collections" are not the same thing.
> > A collective work is a single cohesive work that has been worked on by
> > several people. A collection of works is, well... a collection.
> >
> > As Rob I think the GPL's "mere aggregation" is equivalent to the
> > CC-by-sa's "collections".
> Well, can a collective work get a copyright on the collective work? Can a 
> collection of works get a copyright that covers the collection?

When several people co-operates and together creates a work _and_ there 
is no way of telling who's done what, i.e. one cannot separate the 
team-members contributions from each other, then those people get a 
joint copyright to the collective work.

When someone collects several otherwise independent works, the collector 
may, as long as his selection is original, get a copyright to his 
_selection_. NB! This copyright does not extent to the selected works!

/Peter Brink