[cc-community] Attribution to a site, or to the individual contributors
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Sun Apr 27 07:35:55 EDT 2008
Chris Watkins wrote:
> In the CC article I wrote:
>
> "Licenses for a site may give attribution to the site, rather than to
> the individual contributors.... The Wikinews Licensure Poll
> <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2005-September/000329.html>."
>
>
> However, I mentioned that concept to Prof Graham Greenleaf of UNSW, and
> he was skeptical. Is it possible to give attribution to a site?
In CC attribution licences, contributors can request that attribution be
given to an organization as well as or in stead of themselves.
BY 4.b again:
"You must, [...] provide, reasonable to the medium or means You are
utilizing: (i) the name of the Original Author (or pseudonym, if
applicable) if supplied, and/or if the Original Author and/or Licensor
designate another party or parties (e.g., a sponsor institute,
publishing entity, journal) for attribution ("Attribution Parties") in
Licensor's copyright notice, terms of service or by other reasonable
means, the name of such party or parties;"
Notice the and/or-s. Taken as or-s, the author can specify Wikinews
rather than themselves as the entity that will receive attribution.
I don't think an organization could bind downstream users *not* to
attribute themselves using this. They could refuse contributions that
self-attribute though.
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
- Rob.
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