[cc-community] Attributing when there is no name
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Sat Oct 20 21:08:15 EDT 2007
On Saturday 20 October 2007 20:35:01 Terry Hancock wrote:
> Evan Prodromou wrote:
> > The concern, from Wikimedia sites, is that malicious users will
> > attribute unflattering contributions to Wikimedia administrators. I
> > think there are probably other ways to fix this besides never allowing
> > anyone to be attributed with their real name, but that's just me.
>
> I guess this would relate to the concern that the CC "By" clause is
> subject to "false attribution", since it doesn't insist that attribution
> is accurate, but only what the author wanted. I remember this being
> raised by some of the folks in the Debian project.
Well, it should not have to be accurate, just not falsely attributed to
someone else, right? I mean, we do want people to be able to use "pen names"
right?
>
> But wouldn't false attribution be subject to other forms of prosecution
> (as misrepresentation)?
>
> Cheers,
> Terry
all the best,
drew
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