Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james AT grimmelmann.net>]

drew Roberts wrote:
> On Thursday 26 April 2007 04:57 am, Javier Candeira wrote:
>>> 5) The Freedom not to credit the author of the work (no v2.0+ CC
>>> licenses? now "P" for "plagiarizable" :-P )
>> Awesome. Me too: I almost top-posted.
> 
> I think I touched on this but don't remember any responses.
> 
> Is the lack of named attribution plagiarism, or is claiming the work as 
> your 
> own plagiarism?
> 
> I gave the example of telling jokes which I may not even know who to 
> attribute 
> to.

Plagiarism is context-dependent.  In scholarship, both omitting
attribution and failing to note that an idea isn't original can be
plagiarism.  For professional comedians, telling someone else's jokes
probably is plagiarism.  For people around the home, it probably isn't.

James