Merijn de Weerd wrote: [...] > By selectively quoting parts of another message, I am > creating a derivative. That follows from the literal > wording of 17 USC 101: > > A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, > elaborations, or other modifications, which, as a whole, > represent an original work of authorship, is a 'derivative work.' > > My reply is an original work of authorship. I provided > annotations and other modifications to the message I replied > to. Therefore my reply is and only can be a derivative work.
You simply don't grok it. This is a derivative (annotated) work: Annotation of General Prologue for Canterbury Tales Whan that [When] Aprill with his shoures soote [sweet showers/rain] The droghte [drought] of March hath perced [pierced] to the roote [root], And bathed every veyne in swich licour [fluid such that] Of which vertu engendred [by virtue of which is caused] is the flour [flower] Whan Zephirus [Zephir, the West Wind] eek [also] with his sweete breeth [sweet breath] Inspired hath in every holt and heeth´... But this message as a whole is not a derivative work. regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss