[cc-community] Being called a thief for using CC

Evan Prodromou evan at prodromou.name
Sun Feb 17 22:27:48 EST 2008



On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 21:05 +1100, Javier Candeira wrote:

> Now, their opinion on a) may not final, but I think b) is reasonable: for
> each translation, they request an attribution link for each page (not a
> generic one to the frontpage of the site), and they request that the
> original authors from APOD also be properly credited.

I don't read Spanish very well, but with the English-language licenses
that's NOT a reasonable interpretation of the license text.

Per the US licenses, 3.0, but this text hasn't changed materially since
version 2.0:

        If You Distribute, or Publicly Perform the Work or any
        Adaptations or Collections, You must, unless a request has been
        made pursuant to Section 4(a), keep intact all copyright notices
        for the Work and 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;
                (ii) the title of the Work if supplied;
                (iii) to the extent reasonably practicable, the URI, if
                any, that Licensor specifies to be associated with the
                Work, unless such URI does not refer to the copyright
                notice or licensing information for the Work; and
                (iv) , consistent with Section 3(b), in the case of an
                Adaptation, a credit identifying the use of the Work in
                the Adaptation (e.g., "French translation of the Work by
                Original Author," or "Screenplay based on original Work
                by Original Author").

(Bold, whitespace, italics, and other formatting mine. I find this
section of the license insanely hard to read, especially considering
that it's the only list of what needs to be done to give proper
attribution -- the "deed" is woefully incomplete.)

Anyhoo: a Licensor can specify a URI to link to, but if it's not a
"copyright notice", you're not obligated to link to it. So, no, it's not
a reasonable request. Requiring that all the authors be credited is
reasonable, but requiring a particular link to be used is not -- unless
the link is to copyright or licensing info.

-Evan

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