[Commons-l] Fwd: Share-Alike with images

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 2/10/07, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/2/10, geni <geniice at 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.