On Wednesday 15 January 2003 07:14 am, PETERSON,SCOTT K (HP-USA,ex1) wrote:
> That is not the same thing as saying that D has the positive > legal right to combine anything that D wants with X's material when > distributing X's material. To distribute both X's material and Y's > material, D requires permission of both X and Y. X could decide to decline > to give that permission for the case where X's material was distributed on > the same medium with Y's material. Reading a later message from you, I finally see what the '+' means in your "A+B". It means a separate object C that is derived from both A and B. This isn't aggregation. I believe the proper term is "compilation", which is a form of derivative work. For example, Stephen King couldn't place a copyright-based license on his books that would affect the distribution of Dean Koontz books that happened to be sitting on the same book shelf. Neither could he do it for a story of his published in a magazine. But he *could* use a copyright-based license that affected the distribution of the magazine, which also happened to contain a story by Dean Koontz. A magazine is an example of a compilation. It's what you would call "A+B". The copyrights of the individual stories and articles cannot affect each other, but they could affect the magazine. A+B Magazine requires the permission of both author A and author B to publish their stories. But A+B Magazine does not need the permission of A in order to publish B, or vice versa, without a contract in place to the contrary. On the other hand, A could use a copyright-based license that would affect the distribution of A+B Magazine. Such a license might force the magazine not to publish both stories in the same issue. The GPL section two is addressing such a situation. It states that the license does not cover other articles in the magazine, but that it does affect the magazine. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org pgp public key on website -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
