[cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading

Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 09:56:14 EDT 2007


On 09/08/07, jonathon <jonathon.blake at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know the ground rules for Wikimedia, but his entire corpus
> would be removed from Wikipedia, for copyright/license infringement
> reasons.  [Either the material is under CC-BY, or it is not.   His
> stipulations are incompatible with CC-BY.]

Well I don't know how to interpret this statement given that Wikipedia
is part of Wikimedia.
The user in question was told his interpretation was unacceptable and
he chose to reword it.


> > His line of thinking is not totally unreasonable if you only read the human summary.
>
> The Human Readable summary doesn't count.   What matters is the
> wording of the legal code.   [Something I'll wager that the majority
> of people have not read.   I suspect that even fewer of them
> comprehend how it affects their art.]

I'm aware it 'doesn't count' legally, but it 'counts' for users who
are trying to be part of the free culture movement, and I'm sure CC
would rather be up-front with them about what they are doing rather
than give them nasty surprises later.

regards
Brianna


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