[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.



__________________________________________
> cc-community mailing list
> cc-community at lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community
-- 
Jon Phillips

Business + Community Manager
Creative Commons
www.creativecommons.org

usa: +1 (415) 830-3884 (redirects to me globally)
china: +86 1-360-282-8624
skype: kidproto
im: kidproto




More information about the cc-community mailing list