19 Cloning & Adapting
Objective
- Distinguish between a cloned book and an adaption/derivative book
Cloned Book
A cloned book is a book on the UTSA Pressbooks network that has very minor surface changes from the original -for example the book cover is different-but the rest of the content remains unchanged from the original.
Example
The book Organizational Communication. Ryan McPherson cloned this book by Julie Zink. His changes to the content were minimal, so he retained the original authors’ names on the cloned version.
Adaptation/Derivative Book
An adaptation is 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…[1]
Example: Adaptation/Derivative Book
Christina Frasier and Darren Meritz have been working on a derivative book through the State Funded OER grants, for which UTSA Libraries is providing cost-share support. Note how they list themselves as authors of the book since they have authored several chapters. Chapters that have been remixed from other sources attribute the original authors.
Example: Adaptation/Derivative Book
Janet Vote and her student worker Elizabeth Heathman have been adding content into the Geology of National Parks on UTSA Pressbooks. This particular OER does not exist in Pressbooks and required manual entry by Elizabeth to get content into clean Pressbooks format. While there are plans to add more chapters to the book with national parks in the United States, Canada, and Mexico that are not currently represented, the book is essentially a clone currently. So the original author is provided in the License field.
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Media Attributions
- Organizational Communication
- Organizational Communication Book Info
- From College to Career A Handbook for Student Writers
- From College to Career Authors
- Geology of North American National Parks
- Book Information of Geology of North American Parks on UTSA Pressbooks
- Creative Commons. Creative Commons Legal Code. 2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode ↵
A book that has very minor surface changes from the original. For example, the book cover is different, but the rest of the content remains unchanged from the original.
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…
