Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

Anthony skrev 2013-10-22 04:25:

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> > > So if an adaptation you made ever gets shared publicly, your creation of
> > > it is retroactively made illegal?
> > >
> > > I'm not sure you can do that.
> >
> > No, the creation of the adaptation will never be made illegal. It is the
> > sharing (as defined in the licenses) that will be.
>
> So if the person who shares the adaptation is different from the person who
> prepared the adaptation, the person who prepared the adaptation is fine?
>
> If I make 50,000 adaptations and my daughter inherits them and sells them,
> relying on 17 USC 109, no problem?

The following text may shed some light on this: 
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/109?quicktabs_8=2#quicktabs-8

Note that adaptation is *not* a copy it's an adaptation (or derivative 
work). I would not hold that 17 USC 109 applies to this situation.

/Peter