Hey I should have read the whole thread before answering, sorry :-) Applying creative commons licenses to video releases actually gets a little complicated. As it turns out that it depends whether you are recording a "new" thing, with it's own new copyright - an interview with XYZ, for example...
or if you're taping a performance of an already copyrighted work - say an author reading a chapter from their book - or a singer performing a song. In that case, your video is, by definition, a *derivative work* of the original work. and yeah, i AM talking crazy like - I know - but hey, u.s. copyright law is a little crazy :-) so yes, I mean that: if everything else about your work is completely original, and then you have a clip of this persons copyrighted work in the middle of your thing, then you're whole thing becomes a derivative work of their thing. That IS what I'm saying. Just to clarify :) And no, I didn't understand that this was the case when I went around from 2002 to the present videotaping everything around me and putting it up on the web, without getting releases from anyone, and feeling like a nice person for "sharing" copyright with everyone, and letting everyone do what they wanted with my footage of their things. Turns out it was never mine to *let them use.* Doesn't change much for me and the path I've chosen, but these issues might be important for others as they create their potentially commercially-distributed masterpieces. And no, I'm not saying that me or any other videobloggers should start getting releases for everything, cause that would be silly. (although I'm not giving legal advice in any way, shape, or form anyway, ever -- oh yeah, and never as an official representative of creative commons -- I have to remember to always make that clear too... :) Actually, all I am saying is that, it gets complicated applying creative commons licenses when the derivative work aspect is involved in a video clip. It adds another dimension beyond putting someones image on your website etc. -- and beyond the other issues I mentioned in the other email. okay this was supposed to be a quick answer, sorry that it was not again, just trying to be useful :-) thanks! lisa http://www.onlisareinsradar.com > Den 14.07.2007 kl. 19:26 skrev Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Maybe legal documents must be in legalese...and im just being naive. >> I would love to have a release written like a CC license. >> human readable. > > Err.... Have you read the CC licenses? They are by no means a quick read. > Example: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode > > - Andreas > -- > Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen > <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > > Lisa Rein http://videobloggingweek.mefeedia.com/ http://onlisareinsradar.com http://www.mefeedia.com http://www.lisarein.com
