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  • From: adam <adam AT xs4all.nl>
  • To: "Creative Commons Aotearoa (NZ)" <cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] FW: Use of Creative Commons in New Zealand
  • Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:59:29 +0200

> I'm no lawyer, but that's not how I understood copyright worked. I always
> thought it started off with no permissions, i.e. "you can't copy or
> create derivative works of this", and then the author could add
> allowances onto this, effectively giving permission in specific cases,
> i.e. "you can copy this only if you are standing on one foot", or "you
> can copy and create derivative works only if you allow others to do the
> same under the same terms". However, most of what I know of copyright
> comes from reading things about the US system.
>


yep, it works this way. The default is "all rights reserved" and the opposite
is to committ material to the Public Domain which means you lose your
copyrights
completely. Half way between this is Creative Commons that allows you to
retain the copyrights but manage them more effectively.

adam



> There is (afaik) nothing that provides a limit on what a person may do
> with a work, provided they don't violate the set of 'what copyright
> restricts minus what the author allows'. You can't say "you can only read
> this book standing on your head", as reading it isn't covered by
> copyright.
>
> (for ease of writing, I'm referring to 'author' as 'copyright holder'
> here, they aren't always the same)
>
> I'd like to see this confirmed or corrected however, I tend to think like
> a programmer, and things aren't always that logical :)
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