[linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do*you* stand?

[tim hall]

Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:

>Jan Depner escribe:
>  
>
>>    Maybe in your country.  In the US, copyright is automatic and
>>doesn't even have to be registered (since 1998).  Registering copyright
>>can help you to defend it but all you have to do to claim copyright is
>>to "publish" the work.  In the legal sense "publish" means to issue the
>>work on any medium with a claim of copyright on it to someone other than
>>yourself.
>>    
>>
>
>I think in most countries copyright is "automatic". It wouldn't make
>sense to give a legal basis to CC licenses otherwise. What you do
>licensing your material as CC is "refusing" to the "automatic"
>copyright up to the level you decide.
>
>That's also why things need to be released to the public domain
>explicitly.
>
>As an example, text in my blog and my Flickr pictures are licensed
>CC-by, this means anybody can use them personally or commercially and
>that I only ask for attribution. I couldn't do that on a Copyright
>basis.
>
Yes, but you can't release those pieces under cc licenses unless you 
have control of copyright. You lose copyright then you lose the right to 
license those pieces altogether. Being an amateur is a middle-class luxury.

cheers,

tim hall
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