On 2/10/07, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
2007/2/10, geni geniice@gmail.com:
Then CC-BY-SA is going to produce some truly moronic results under UK law.
Copyright on sound recordings in the UK lasts 50 years. So I take a 51 year old bit of music and use it as a backing for a film. Then I try to release it under CC-By-SA
It is now a derative of that bit of music but copyright on films lasts rather longer than 50 years in the uk so the copyright situation that results is rather odd.
I don't see what's odd about that. It's a work, copyrighted by you, under CC-BY-SA, and based on a public domain work. It's no different than the same situation would have been if the music had been not 51 but 300 years old. And little different than the same situation where you had not put it under CC-BY-SA.
Agreed, and not weird at all when you consider all the movies that lapsed due to lack of re-registration... yet which can not be treated as free works because of the copyrighted music and dialog they contain.