AWA License can be applied to any work that is considered art, even if only by its author, and in any field of human activity, provided its in digital form or more generally its copying and modification do not require any material production and/or its production does not require any special time, effort and resources.

To expand this with an example, to copy a sculpture you need to actually make another one. To copy a computer file you just need to make a couple of clicks with your mouse. So to a sculpture this license is not applicable, but it is to a computer file. This includes any works of art which can be transported to a computer file, like music on a compact disc (which can be encoded to audio files), book (which can be either scanned or retyped into a file), photograph, painting (which can be scanned).

1. work of art, released under AWA License, cannot exhibit the name of the author. The author can speak, even publicly, of his authorship, but the work itself should not have a name on it, be it a full name, nickname, company name or any other information that can identify directly or indirctly the person or people who created it.

To expand this with examples, a compact disc should not have the name of the author on its packaging or on the disc itself, music files should have no author information in tags, name of file or any other direct or indirect methods of delivering the information on authorship.

1n. If the style of the work allows to identify the author, it is acceptable. However, this does not give permission to put the name of the author onto the work.

1nn. If the work contains in itself the information on who wrote it as an inalienable part of what it is, the author cannot distribute the work under the AWA License; if the modified version of the AWA Licensed work contains in itself the information on who wrote/modified it as an inalienable part of what it is, such modified version cannot be distributed at all.

An example of this may be a music recording in which a vocalist or an MC specifies the people behind the work, which is traditional in some styles of music and performances. Such a recording cannot be released under the AWA License.

2. the work released under AWA License can be experienced (that is, listened/looked at/read, etc.), distributed (privately or commercially), modified, distributed in modified version (privately or commercially) with no restrictions whatsoever but the restrictions stated in 3.

3. The modified version of the work should be released under the same license and thus should not exhibit the name of the author who modified it.

3a. The resulting work of art is considered to be a modified version of the original if once the elements of the original are removed, the work can no longer be considered the same kind of work as it was before the removal.

3b. Kind of work is defined by its form (like: music, literature, art, video) and/or type (like: prose/poem, song/instrumental, landscape/portrait) and/or completion (that is, can a work of art be considered complete after the removal of the original elements).

To expand this with examples, if a melody was released under the AWA License and another author wrote lyrics to it, it becomes a song and it is considered to be a modified version of the original, because if we remove the melody, we are left with lyrics. Song lyrics can sometimes be a standalone poem and sometimes not, but the work definetely stops being a song that it was before the removal of the original work. Another example is sampling. Sampling may or may not be derivative work. If the sample of the AWA licensed work is removed from the resulting work and it doesn't change what the work is and does not make it incomplete, the sample is not considered a modified version of the original. If, however, the sample is, for example, very substantially used or many samples are used from the AWA licensed work in a tune and removing it will make the tune definetely incomplete, such sampling is considered derivative work and the resulting tune should be released under the AWA License.

4. The work should contain the text of the AWA License when possible. If not (cannot put so much text or any text on work), the name of License along with its version number should be mentioned in any file tags available and distributed along with files that contain work of art as a plain text file.

Things to do:

1. How to license the work which was previously released as an authored work.
2. How to deal with people who DO recordings - that is, can a recording studio be credited if necessary? The distributor? That can be extra important in light of official releases with labels.
3. Sampling issues: concerning samples which are too unrecognizable.