[cc-community] How can i make a new document license ?

Claude Almansi claude.almansi at bluewin.ch
Wed Jan 13 06:09:01 EST 2010


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:10 PM, narendra sisodiya
<narendra.sisodiya at gmail.com> wrote:
(...)
>
> There is a issue.
> For example, If I want to take article from wikipedia, I have to
> attribute them. it means, I have to go to the history and look authors
> name and so on. If I compose a article which include wikipedia text,
> wikibook text and flickr then , the pain will be in finding the
> attribution. When somebody want to take article from site, he has to
> go on history page and print attribution.
>
> IMO , CC-BY-SA is good license, but at the "Remix-Level=0" , which
> means, adaptation is work is easy
> but When "Remix-Level=1 to 5" managing attribution is very difficult.
>
> So, I want to see a system where "just - copy paste" is legal.
>
> Let me explain more :
> 1) If I go on a wikipedia article, then If I take print-out and sell
> them, It will be copyright violation, as simply copy paste/print does
> not attribute it. Or process of attribution is not very clear So it
> make hard to reprint and sell wiki content.

Actually, all Wikipedia articles have a Cite this page link. E.g. for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law,  the Cite this page link is
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Cite&page=HADOPI_law&id=336193510>,
which gives you the exact wording for the reference according to
various conventions (APA, MLA etc) under "Citation styles for "HADOPI
law ". You can just copy-paste the one you prefer. So let's say you
use the APA one (but the same obtains for all). Presently it says:

"HADOPI law. (2010, January 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Retrieved 10:48, January 13, 2010, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HADOPI_law&oldid=336193510"

i.e. the link takes readers to the version you consulted, from which,
in one click, they can access the whole history of the page, which
also indicates all the people who contributed to the page. That's
considered as satisfactory attribution.

>
> So IMO, We must have some sort of "Pool License" where
> * You are free to copy/share/sell/adapt work
> * Any remix must released under same "Pool License"
>
> So any remix will increase  the size of this "Knowledge/Content Pool" -
>
> I am highly concentrating on highly easy remixing process where remix
> level goes to many levels such as wiki content.

I don't quite understand what you mean by "pool license".  But other
collaborative sites have a solution similar to the Wikipedia one
mentioned above. For instance, when a video is posted for
captioning/subtitling at DotSUB.com, there is a link where the names
of all the people who contributed to all subtitles in all languages
are given.  And vice-versa, when someone decides to collaborate to
such a site, s/he accepts that his/her name will be indirectly
available through the attribution reference.

Best

Claude



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