[cc-community] rethink attribution
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Fri May 2 17:14:30 EDT 2008
drew Roberts wrote:
> On Thursday 01 May 2008 23:52:31 Evan Prodromou wrote:
>> If it's problematic, it doesn't have to be in-band. Ta-da! That's how
>> the magic of "give credit reasonable to the medium" works.
>
> Great! (Does anyone disagree?)
> But this illustrates where we still fall short I think and points us towards
> needed improvements.
> This has never seemed "sensible" to me and so I have kept asking once in a
> while.
Any time there's a "reasonable"-ness standard, the issue is really
not formally decided until it comes to court, and then the question
is not necessarily what *we* think, but what a court of law will
think is "reasonable". That's just the way it is, and I don't think
it's a big problem -- there are "standard practice" examples in
most of these media, and I think a court would consider them.
Sadly (or luckily?) we can't make everything into crisp logic,
there's always going to be some fuzzy.
> Do we need some sort of "best practices" documents?
IMHO, *yes*: it would be a great thing to publicly document these
standard practices that are expected in different media. That (probably)
won't really change what the courts will decide, but it could
certainly alleviate concerns for both licensors and licensees.
Cheers,
Terry
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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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