- only extends to the new contributions that you made to the work. In a collection, this is the selection and arrangement of the various works in the collection, and not the individual works themselves. For example, you can select and arrange pre-existing poems published by others into an anthology, write an introduction, and design a cover for the collection, but your copyright and the only copyright you can license extends to your arrangement of the poems (not the poems themselves), and your original introduction and cover. The poems are not yours to license.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CREATE AN ADAPTATION OF A CC-LICENSED WORK OR WORKS?
General rules
- If the underlying work is licensed under a NoDerivatives license, you can make and use changes privately, but you cannot share your adaptation with others, as discussed above.
- If the underlying or original work is licensed under a ShareAlike license, then ShareAlike applies to your adaptation of it, and you must license the adaptation under the same or a compatible license. There is more on this below.
- You need to consider license compatibility. License compatibility is the term used to address the issue of which types of licensed works can be adapted into a new work.
- In all cases, you have to attribute the original work when you create an adaptation.
Scenarios
When creating an adaptation of a CC-licensed work, the simplest scenario is when you take a single CC-licensed work and adapt it.
The more complicated scenario is when you are adapting two or more CC-licensed works into a new work.
In both situations, you need to consider what options you have for licensing the copyright you have in your adaptation; this is called the Adapter’s License. Remember that your rights in your adaptation only apply to your own contributions. The original license continues to govern the reuse of the elements from the original work that you used when creating your adaptation. The “CC Adapters License Chart,” shown in figure 4.11, may be a helpful guide. When creating an adaptation of material under the license identified in the left-hand column, you may license your contributions to the adaptation under one of the licenses indicated on the top row if the corresponding box is dark gray. Creative Com-
