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

From: "Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher 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: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:56:14 +1000

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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[cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading, Brianna Laugher, 08/08/2007
- Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading, jonathon, 08/08/2007
  - 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
  - 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
- 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
  - 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
      - 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
        
        Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading, jonathon, 08/09/2007
        
        Re: [cc-licenses] 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading, Evan Prodromou, 08/09/2007
- [cc-licenses] keep intact (was Re: 'Attribution' condition human-readable summary misleading), Evan Prodromou, 08/09/2007