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Originally Posted by HarryT
The fundamental difference between a CC work and one that's in the PD is that a CC work is "owned" by its author, and fully protected by copyright law. Nobody owns a work that it's the PD, and anyone can do absolutely anything they wish with it.
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i suppose it can be stated like that, but if a cc work is released under a licence including a "share-alike" (copyleft) clause, it explicitly gives the right to modify the original work and create derivative works from it, the only obligation being that the new works must be distributed under the same licence. and unless the CC licence specifically includes the "non-commercial" clause you are not prohibited from using them to commercial ends. so the notion of ownership is rather blurry here.