[cc-community] A question about attribution

Gautam John gautam at prathambooks.org
Tue Jul 14 02:40:39 EDT 2009


Thank you Claude:

> If you want to release the book under a CC license, you could probably have:
>
> Copyright notice
> Text: Y
> Illustrations: X
> copyright: Z
> This book is released under a .... CC license

Makes sense and is in line with what we're doing.

> But it would be simpler for users if the illustrator and author of the
> text did not assign the copyright to you, but let you use their work.
> Then you could have:

Fair point but one of the reasons we ask for an assignment is that we
pay for the rights and then transfer the content in to the Commons. Is
much easier from an incentive point of view.

Best,

Gautam
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