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Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Posted Sep 5, 2012 3:17 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org) by grantingram
Parent article: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

"Bringing something new to the table" doesn't make something not a derived work.

> In my field it is rare that lengthy quotations or even figures
> from other works are included for no other reason that this
> reduces the space you have to discuss your own work.

That makes sense, I suppose.


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Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Posted Sep 5, 2012 5:44 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

all of science is "derived work" adding to the existing knowledge and theories.

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