[cc-community] another anecdote: color: #e2e2e2

Alek Tarkowski alek at creativecommons.pl
Thu Apr 17 10:27:15 EDT 2008


Hi everyone,

I wish there was some common space to store these little examples - 
which seem to be slightly too small for this big list; and nevertheless 
interesting. I know there are works on a best practices repository - 
would it make sense to have a worst practices repository as well?

I co-write in Poland a blog under CC BY and one of our posts, written by 
my friend, got re-used at a different site. They included both the 
author's name, original title and source - but have written it with font 
color #e2e2e2, which equals very bleak, whitish grey.

Formally, they do attribute. And importantly, the attribution is 
machine-indexable, if I understand correctly. But to the human eye, 
there's almost no attribution - I've got a letter from a friend telling 
me about the case, but not mentioning the attribution, which he probably 
missed. See for yourself how difficult it is to spot.

So I'm wondering whether there is anything to worry about here, or not.  
And then what can we do - stipulate the allowable color range of 
attribution notices?

Cheers,

Alek

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