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Re: [WikiForum] Copyright - beyond derived; multilevel; republishing; compilation

Thanks, now i feel less guilty about getting headaches and
temporarily giving up on having clarity on the whole copyright thang.

That doesn't change the fact that i would like to have some concrete
advice to give to folks starting up public wikis. Creative Commons
are working on a wiki license
<http://creativecommons.org/drafts/wiki_0.5>, anyone looked into that?

Life,
John
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Consciousness is our oxygen challenge. Domination is a sabre-tooth.
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Anyone know what makes a work sufficiently different that it becomes an original rather than a derivative work? ... Can you point me to what in the Berne...
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Mar 20, 2004
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... The concept of original in copyright law is pretty loose, encompassing any creative act, no matter how small. But that isn't what you're asking. You're...
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Mar 20, 2004
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... More precisely, i'm asking what happens with wiki-style editing. For example, if i read something like this: "FooBar is a useful pattern; it helped me...
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... For ... split ... five ... teams." ... signing ... number ... the ... fact ... arguably ... (especially ... NcddWiki ... I'm looking back at some old...
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... Something complete rewritten may or may not be a derivative work. Suppose you write a new novel about a hardboiled detective named Mike who can never keep...
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Mar 21, 2005
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Thanks, now i feel less guilty about getting headaches and temporarily giving up on having clarity on the whole copyright thang. That doesn't change the fact...
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Mar 24, 2005
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... Hi folks, Apologies for lurking... I've got issues Choosing what to use for a copyright license is not the only issue here. A fair solution takes care of...
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