[cc-community] another anecdote: color: #e2e2e2
Lucas Gonze
lucas.gonze at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 12:52:13 EDT 2008
Alek, my understanding is that attribution is defined as being
human-readable. There is no difference between not having attribution
and displaying but hiding the attribution, except to the extent that
you are satisfied with machine data.
Nothing protects this person from having you sue him except your
agreement that he has lived up to the terms of the license, and once
you sue him a wise lawyer would advise him to settle.
But then again, I am a programmer, not a lawyer.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Alek Tarkowski <alek at creativecommons.pl> wrote:
> 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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