Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>]

On Tue, 2007-10-04 at 17:04 -0400, drew Roberts wrote:

> This seems to indicate that you do have the right to make Adaptations if it 
> is 
> necessary to do so to exercise the above rights in another medium or format.

It's pretty clear that a piece of music as the soundtrack of a film is
not simply translating the music into a new format. It's creating a new
work, a blend of moving images and music, that is significantly
different from the music played on its own.

I think a good example of "exercising rights in another medium" would be
making print-outs of an electronic document, or broadcasting an MP3 file
over FM radio. Examples of making adaptations would be acting out a play
on stage, doing a techno version of a country-western song, or expanding
a poem into a full-length novel.

I think the language of the license is clear in that converting the work
into a new medium is not a free pass to make derivatives.

-Evan


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