On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Douglas Pollard
<dougpol1(a)verizon.net> wrote:
I have been downloading some video that is
made from old silent film
movies. They are licenced cc no derivatives. Some are remixed. How is
this possible? I am thinking these old films were in the public domain
or the remixer bought the right to publish them. How do these clips get
published under CC. How does a remixer get the right to not allow
remixing or derivatives? If he did a voice over it makes sense that he
has the right to publish his added sound but how the video?
If you use a work that is in the public domain and add creativity to
it, you can get copyrights on it (if the threshold of originallity has
been passed) and thus license the work anyway you wish.
If you buy publishing rights can you then
publish under a CC
licence. I am trying to figure out what I can use in making a video and
how it is that I can't use some things and can others. My video will be
maybe 70% my own work but I would like to use CC music.some pictures,
video and sounds, then publish in creative commons.
Usually when you buy publishing rights you buy a non-exclusive license
that is bounded to terms, which may or may not be compatible with a
certain CC license.
In principle you can use public domain works in it.
Make sure that the other CC licensed works are mutually compatible.
The vast majority of the CC licenses and musical works are under an
unfree CC license.
In case you want a reliable opinion, you should refer to lawyer.
Bryan
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Bryan,
I guess what I am trying to figure out is: if I take a film clip
from the public domain and add to it remix, change it then I can
publish with a CC licence. That would not seem to me to mean that I own
my copy of the film clip I used but only what I added to it. Can the
work I did to the clip be seperated out and not used but then can the
remaing clip be reused. It would seem to me to still be in the public
domain.
Of course I am not looking for a lawyers advice here but just
another opinion. My feelings are the creative commons licence would
seem to have no effect on the original clip itself or a copy of it??
Man-o-man, thinking this hard hurts. :-)
I have a ton of video and pictures I have taken of mostly scenery
that I want to place on line under cc licence which anyone can use for
any purpose (no conditions). I am in my mide 70's and I thinking one of
these days my kids will throw them all in the trash. At least if they
are on line they can go back and get them. Doug