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  • From: Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>
  • To: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Changes to attribution: your attention wanted
  • Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:10:44 +0100

On 09/29/2012 10:31 AM, Francesco Poli wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:02:38 -0700 Kat Walsh wrote:
Copyright notices:

One open question is whether to preserve copyright notices.

I think that preserving copyright notices should be required, in order
to help bringing clarity on who are the copyright holders for the work.

Yes I agree. I think that preserving notices is vital.

[...]
Identifying changes to the work:

This one does not appear in 4.0d2--it is a new suggestion in the
current internal draft, and something we'd like to hear community
opinion on: "if You Share Adapted Material, You must indicate the
Licensed Material was used and describe the changes made." (This would
also be "reasonable to the medium, means, and context", as the other
attribution information would be.)

I think that this should be *much* narrower, or otherwise compliance
would become a nightmare!

Do note the "reasonable" requirement.

Requiring a change record is common in Free Software projects. With cultural works it would help avoid mis-attribution of work. For example if I modify a political tract and state:
"2012-08-29 Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org> - changed all occurrences of 'shall' to 'shall not' in the body text".

But on balance, I do worry that the accuracy and completeness of such change records will be very variable, and that maintaining a simple list of the authors and dates of changes is still the best approach for indicating who has changed a work over time.

- Rob.





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