Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

On Sunday 13 May 2012 18:14:17 Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sun, 06 May 2012 11:04:25 -0400 drew Roberts wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > If you can re-arrange the order of the included works on the medium and
> > it makes no difference, you have the same work of copyright either way,
> > the the gplv3 aggregate game holds.
> >
> > If re-arranging the order of the works makes for a different work of
> > copyright, then the stronger proposed copyleft protections I have been
> > putting forward hold.
>
> [...]
>
> Is the order of photos in a coffee table book really always so
> significant?

We have to get a lawyer to answer that one for us don't we.

> Would it become a different work, if the order were rearranged?

Lawyers?

Is this a good test? Would this be a suitable compromise for this problem?
>
> Also, does talking about the "order" of files in a CD-ROM make sense?

And here we have a big difference between a CD as a distribution medium where 
the included parts can be used separately and a bound book.

One does not generally use the programs on the CD but loads them from there 
to 
a hard disk. (I do know about live CDs.)

> The order of bits does not matter much, from the user's point of view,
> since it is masked by the file-system, which is however visible to the
> user as a tree-like data structure, which, in its turn, does not have a
> unique visiting order...

all the best,

drew