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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading
- From: jonathon <jonathon.blake AT gmail.com>
- To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:42:01 +0100
Brianna wrote:
> I have noticed that the human-readable summary of the 'Attribution'
> condition has lead a few people to a belief about their 'right' to
The "Human Readable" summery of all of the licenses is misleading.
Maybe one of these days they will be corrected.
> This is how one user interpreted his 'right' to 'specify the manner' of
> attribution:
That user hasn't a clue as to either the rights he retained, or gave away.
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.]
> 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.]
> IMO a 'reasonable manner' of attribution for a digital work presented
> in a digital form is caption/alt-text with a link and text stating the
Since it is a digital image, the most reasonable manner of attribution
is to include it in the metadata of the image. For printing of the
image, put it in a line.
The one thing that the user does do correctly, is define the words for
the attribution: "Photograph by name_of_photographer".
> Just wondering if anyone else had flagged this wording as a potential cause
> of confusion.
It gets brought up periodically. The wording might get changed for
newer licenses. [I don't pay attention to what the human readable
summary says.]
> "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work": does this mean if
> someone puts a watermark on their image "(C) Someone 2007
> SomeLicense", we are obliged to keep it? I hope not...
Yes you are. One does not give up copyright by using a Creative
Commons license. Furthermore, if the image does contain a watermark
"(C) somebody 2007", the attribution requirements for the image have
been met. That just leaves the user of the image with the
responsibility of adding the URL.
xan
jonathon
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[cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
Brianna Laugher, 08/08/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
jonathon, 08/08/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
drew Roberts, 08/08/2007
- Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading, Gregory Maxwell, 08/08/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
Brianna Laugher, 08/09/2007
- Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading, jonathon, 08/09/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
drew Roberts, 08/08/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
Mike Linksvayer, 08/08/2007
- Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading, Brianna Laugher, 08/09/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
Evan Prodromou, 08/09/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
Gregory Maxwell, 08/09/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
Evan Prodromou, 08/09/2007
- Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading, Gregory Maxwell, 08/09/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
Evan Prodromou, 08/09/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
Gregory Maxwell, 08/09/2007
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Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading,
jonathon, 08/08/2007
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