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  • From: James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Regarding SA and "strong copyleft" question
  • Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:19:18 -0500

drew Roberts wrote:
On Saturday 03 March 2007 10:32 am, Peter Brink wrote:
drew Roberts skrev:
So, the BY-SA decided not to apply to collective works but the GPL
decided to apply to collective works. ??? Is that right?
GPL doesn't apply to collections. See the following article by Lawrence
Rosen: http://www.phptr.com/articles/article.asp?p=353550&seqNum=7&rl=1
(section 7 and 8 are the relevant ones).

I will take your word for it, but could you explain what this means?

"Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
collective works based on the Program."

...it is the intent to excercise the right to control collective works based on the Program...

Some have recently said collective work does not equal collection, Mia stepped in and seemed to say they were the same.

Distinguish "collection" as it is defined in the Unported CC license (to be roughly equal to "collective work" under the U.S. CC license) from any use of "collection" outside of the CC context. The latter might be different from "collective work;" the former isn't intended to be.

James




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