25 Remixes, Adapted Works, and Derivative Works

Adaptation:

“Remix” and “derivative” definitions are interchangeable with adapted works. “Adaptation” means a work based upon the Work, or upon the Work and other pre-existing works, such as a translation, adaptation, derivative work, arrangement of music or other alterations of a literary or artistic work, or phonogram or performance and includes cinematographic adaptations or any other form in which the Work may be recast, transformed, or adapted including in any form recognizably derived from the original, except that a work that constitutes a Collection will not be considered an Adaptation for the purpose of a License.

Adaptation vs Collections

In contrast to an adaptation or remix of others’ work, a collection involves the assembly of separate and independent creative works into a collective whole. A collection is not an adaptation. One Creative Commons community member likened the difference between adaptations and collections to smoothies and TV dinners, respectively:

Adaptation:

Like a smoothie, an adaptation / remix mixes material from different sources to create a wholly new creation

In a “smoothie” or adaptation / remix, you often cannot tell where one open work ends and another one begins. While this flexibility is useful for the new creator, it is still important to provide attribution to the individual parts that went into making the adaptation.

An example of an education adaptation would be an open textbook chapter that weaves together multiple open educational resources in such a way that the reader can’t tell which resource was used on which page. That said, the endnotes of the book chapter should still provide attribution to all of the sources that were remixed in the chapter.

  Collections:

As mentioned previously in the Module, like a TV dinner, a collection compiles different works together while keeping them organized as distinct separate objects. An example of a collection would be a book that compiles openly-licensed essays from different sources.

 This Video is a derivative of the January 2020 Creative Commons Certificate Course by Creative Commons, licensed CC BY 4.0. Andrew Cambron adapted content from the Creative Commons Certificate Course Unit 4 on compilations and remixes, reworking/remixing the content into this video .

“CC Smoothie” by Nate Angell. CC BY. Derivative of “Strawberry Smoothie On Glass Jar” by Element5 (https://www.pexels.com/photo/strawberry-smoothie-on-glass-jar-775032/) in the public domain, and various Creative Commons license buttons by Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads) used under CC BY.

“CC TV Dinner ) ” by Nate Angell. CC BY . Derivative of “tv dinner 1″ by adrigu (https://flic.kr/p/6AMLDF ) used under CC BY, and various Creative Commons license buttons by Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads) used under CC BY

Creative Commons Licenses Legal Code CC BY SA 4.0

Unit 4: Using CC Licenses and CC-Licensed Works by Creative Commons CC- BY 4.0