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20 years on, these licenses are pretty robust. The flaws in earlier versions have been discovered and repaired in subsequent revisions. They have been adapted to multiple countries' legal systems, allowing CC users to mix-and-match works from many territories - animating Polish sprites to tell a story by a Canadian, set to music from the UK.

Willingham could clarify his "public domain" dedication by applying a Creative Commons license to *Fables*, but which license?

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

That's a thorny question. What Willingham really wants here is a #sampling license - a license that allows licensees to take *some* of the elements of his work, combine them with other parts, and make something new.

But no CC license fits that description. Every CC license applies to *whole* works. If you want to license the bass-line from your song but not the melody, you have to release the bass-line separately and put a CC license on *that*.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

You can't just put a CC license on the song with an asterisked footnote that reads "just the bass, though."

CC *had* a sampling license: the "Sampling Plus 1.0" license. It was a *mess*. Licensees couldn't figure out what parts of works they were allowed to use, and licensors couldn't figure out how to coney that. It's been "retired."

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/

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