Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>]

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