[cc-community] CC needs a default form of attribution?
Jon Phillips
jon at creativecommons.org
Sun Apr 27 12:29:30 EDT 2008
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
> Chris Watkins wrote:
> > I can't figure out how attribution works in CC licenses - it looks to me
> > like there's a problem in the licenses' wording.
> >
> > From iterating toward openness - Why Not CC By?
> > <http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/366>: 'The Attribution
> > requirement of all CC licenses, including CC By, states "You must
> > attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor."
> > Now, I ask you - have you ever seen a page with a CC license that
> > specifies how the work should be attributed?'
>
> In the absence of specified attribution, fall back to BY section 4.b:
>
> "[...]provide, reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing: (i)
> the name of the Original Author (or pseudonym, if applicable) if
> supplied [...] in a manner at least as prominent as the credits for the
> other contributing authors"
>
> > * The CC licenses should specify a default form of attribution. Optional
> > plugins to specify a different form (as suggested in the blog post
> > above) would be nice, but less urgent.
>
> They do, but in the legal code not in the title deed.
>
> I agree that some clear examples would be good to point to.
Check out our marking project:
http://creativecommons.org/projects/marking
I'm working on hooking that into more of the site as part of ongoing
information architecture updates :) If you guys have ideas abou this,
please do suggest :)
Jon
> - Rob.
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