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Re: derivative works (was: Licensing question about the BSD)
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Isaac |
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Re: derivative works (was: Licensing question about the BSD) |
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Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:53:11 -0500 |
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On 18 Aug 2005 15:17:12 -0400, Bruce Lewis <brlspam@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Isaac <isaac@latveria.castledoom.org> writes:
>
>> On 16 Aug 2005 14:22:25 -0400, Bruce Lewis <brlspam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Meaning that the original source or object code has not been mutated.
>> > In the sense I'm using "modified", a naked statue remains unmodified
>> > when clothing is draped over it. An artist might think differently.
>>
>> I would find calling such draping "adapting" to be a stretch of both the
>> ordinary and the legal meaning of the work. Using a statute as a clothing
>> rack is adopting but not adapting. Now if instead you had to twist one of
>> the statutes arms around so that draped clothing would not fall, you've
>> done some adapting.
>
> In the ordinary sense, the clothing adapts the art to a new purpose,
> changing its character. The statue isn't a clothing rack. As to the
> legal meaning, I don't particularly care, as my argument doesn't hinge
> on that one word. What I'm saying is that it's unwise to assume that
> because you haven't modified the original, that there's no derivative
> work.
>
> The U.S. Copyright office agrees with me:
> http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.html#examples
>
> "Sound recording (long-playing record in which two of the
> 10 selections were previously published on a 45 rpm single)"
I think they are saying that the 10 song compilation is derivative
of the original 2 song compilation and not that the individual
selections copied unto the LP have become derivative works of the
individual selections on the single.
Isaac
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, (continued)
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/04
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Isaac, 2005/08/04
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/04
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Isaac, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/16
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Isaac, 2005/08/17
- derivative works (was: Licensing question about the BSD), Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/18
- Re: derivative works (was: Licensing question about the BSD),
Isaac <=
- Re: derivative works (was: Licensing question about the BSD), Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/19
- Re: derivative works (was: Licensing question about the BSD), Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/19
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/19
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, David Kastrup, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Isaac, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, David Kastrup, 2005/08/06
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Isaac, 2005/08/06
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/06
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/06