I'm glad you recognise I'm so concerned about plagiarism and misrepresentation. However, I'm also concerned about unnecessary obligations of attribution or disambiguation, which, among other things, is why I disagree with the attribution requirement of CC licenses. If Fred's e-mail appeared to be from 'Fred Benenson, Cultural Program Associate, Creative Commons' then Fred could indeed have needed to clarify that he wasn't representing CC, but this wasn't the case. Either Fred felt the need to add it on an ad hoc basis, or it's boiler plate. Either way, I thought I'd make a satirical observation in passing. Fred evidently thought it an interesting enough observation to reply to, etc.
_____ From: Parker Higgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 25 July 2008 7:29pm To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] Sparky Awards video contest Redundant I'll grant you, unnecessary less so, and burden on free speech not at all. First, the cost is so minimal (maybe a second or two of Fred's time) that it could hardly be considered a burden on anything. Second, and as somebody so concerned about plagiarism and misrepresentation I think you could identify with this, the idea of a person taking a second or two to avoid misrepresentation seems difficult to consider detrimental to freedom of speech. parker
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