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  • From: "Lucas Gonze" <lucas.gonze AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] any examples of how to attribute?
  • Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:06:03 -0800

On 12/4/06, Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 23:05 -0800, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> That's what I suspected. I think that right now it just isn't
> practical for musicians to figure out what a WOAF page might be.

Maybe not call it a WOAF page? :)

How about a WOOF page? This would be good because it would be silly.

A rationalization for including a link to a "WOAF" page (or "web
statement") in a file (the motivation was that a link to a license is
meaningless--anyone could add a CC license link to a Madonna MP3) is
that if media players and other software read and displayed the relevant
metadata, it would be another link back to the artist, and links are
valuable. There is of course a chicken and egg problem...

I agree with this thinking. I think it's absolutely right. The only
question in my mind is about how to get people to do it at all, and
then to do a good enough job for the page to actually be legally
binding. For example, I think the page has to give the person's name,
the date of the license grant, some specifics about the recording and
composition.




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