Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>]

I believe the language of the license says URL attribution
is required if the URL is provided. If no URL is provided,
then no URL attribution is required. This allows one license
to handle either case.

Also note the 3 requirements for the URL:
(1) linking back must be "reasonably practicable" -- you can't string me up
for failing to link to a dead page, for example; (2) the licensor must specify
a URL -- if you don't provide one specifically, I have no linkback obligation;
(3) the link licensor provides must point to the copyright and licensing
notice of the CC'd work -- in other words, licensors who abuse the linkback as
an engine for traffic to unrelated sites don't enjoy linkback rights.

I use URL attribution on some of my stuff, for example:

http://www.greglondon.com/hunger/givemestorm.html

with a URL attribution here:

http://www.greglondon.com/nc



Carrie McLaren said:
>
> On this page it says that, with the 2.0 licenses, a licensor may
> require a link back where possible:
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/4216
>
> ...yet I don't see that option when I try to set up a license. Am I
> reading things correctly or doing something wrong?
>
>
> [ Personally, I'd like to be able to define attribution even more
> strictly, requiring that the link and attribution appear at the top
> of article. (Because on several occasions, people have copied text
> from my site, broken it down into multiple pages and then placed the
> attribution at the very end of the article, giving the impression --
> for the majority of people who never make it to the end -- that the
> article was by the other website/blogger.) ]
>
> thanks in advance,
> carrie
>
>
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