[cc-community] rethink attribution
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu May 1 18:35:28 EDT 2008
On Thursday 01 May 2008 16:09:33 Peter Brink wrote:
> Jamison Young skrev:
> > When a film uses content licensed with CC, is it fair that
> > attribution happen when the film has finished? how can the artist be
> > considered to be attributed if the art is not placed with the
> > attribution?
>
> To someone who lives in a jurisdiction in which attribution is mandatory
> by law, this discussion seems a bit odd. The Swedish copyright act art.
> 3 states: "When a work is reproduced, or when it is made available to
> the public, the name of the author shall be stated to the extent and in
> the manner required by proper usage." Proper usage varies with the
> medium and the context. At a funeral it's not proper to attribute the
> author of the text to the hymns sung at all but if the texts of those
> hymns were quoted on a web page, attribution in full is required (i.e.
> you need to state the name of the author, the name of the work, year of
> publication and the name of the publisher - if applicable).
>
> The key word is thus "proper usage". In jurisdictions where moral rights
> exists (which should be all jurisdictions according to the Berne
> Convention) this issue has been settled long ago in case law. Following
> the standards for "proper usage" should IMO be quite sufficient when
> dealing with attribution in the context of a CC license.
That may be the case, but if it is, I would say that those of us who are
ignorant might benefit from some use case examples and best practive
examples.
I have asked about this issue of attribution in a radio show before on list
and seem to remember being told that the audio announcement would need to be
made for each song to be in keeping with the license. Does anyone recall any
doissenting views to that at that time?
>
> /Peter Brink
all the best,
drew
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