-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Crosbie Fitch wrote:
> TRUTH in attribution is a good thing to protect. > > Truth is socially valued. It adds value to art. It is not a burden. It is > not considered an unacceptable restriction except by fraudsters. > Of course. > However, compulsory attribution is a burden, and can remove value if it > impedes use. There are cases where it has been recognised and termed an > 'obnoxious requirement' in the past. > That's probably because the manner of attribution was specified in the license, and it was an obnoxious one. I find it hard to see how an obligation to "make known" the original contributors can be obnoxious: usually you can find a way to do this in a an unobtrusive manner. For example, an extra page in a book or an extra text file in a compressed archive that lists all the contributors can hardly impede use. However, I can also see how such an obligation should rely on ethics rather than on law, since social benefit to an obligation to attribute seems to be marginal at best. >> If there is no serious disagreement about this (I don't expect any) we >> can assume a copyright "nullification" to leave intact optional >> enforcement of attribution and/or copyleft requirements. > > I have a serious disagreement about enforcement of attribution. > > However, I wholly support enforcement against misattribution. > > And misattribution can be explicit or implicit. > >> With this amendment on copyright "nullification," a nullification is >> sufficient to sustain all these great projects. > > There is absolutely no reason why abolishing copyright should consequently > permit authors to have cart blanche to plagiarise each others' works at > will. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5KiM6THm0ATXcbwRAiNEAKCBODwAq+9EJhMGDOMCl3wzBX26jgCgsaew d1JJk3UT3asYU49mOGidfXk= =li5L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
