On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote: > Rob Myers <r...@...> writes: >>It's enforcable for much the same reason that if you send ten of your >>friends a few seconds of a Lady Gaga song and they put them back >>together to make the original track, whether they realise it or not the >>copyright on it hasn't magically vanished. > > Right. But if the music publisher had given permission (perhaps by some > tortuously worded licence document) to release those short clips under CC-BY > then you would be within your rights to put them together into a longer work.
Moreover, a better analogy is that you send *one* friend the entire Lady Gaga song, in a form (maybe a waveform video) which makes it difficult, but not impossible, to extract the underlying song. An even better analogy would be a library released under the LGPL. You are allowed to release the library only under the LGPL, but a binary which contains the library does not have to be under LGPL. The only free license which the LGPL is compatible with is the GPL, and it's only compatible with that because it's *explicitly* compatible with it. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
