Again, right at the top, I apologize for replying to a week old posting, and one I replied to at the time, besides... but perhaps my motives will be clear.
Anthony wrote: > Now, personally, the way I read "reasonable to the medium or means You are > utilitzing", I think it means "what is reasonably necessary to provide > proper attribution", not "what is reasonably necessary to maximize reuse". > Erik seems to be pushing for the latter interpretation. > > I commented on your interpretation of what you perceived to be Erik's wish in all of this... But I neglected to comment at all your interpretation of the wording of the license. I don't think "proper attribution" means anything, in relation to the phrase you are quoting. However, a benign reading of "reasonable to the medium or means" could easily be dovetailed with the (I really only know of the case in Finland) moral rights legislation phrasing of *only* requiring the attribution be provided in such a form which is "customary" in the field applicable. This would not require for instance that each product give the attribution, as long as for instance the attribution were given more centrally in a fashion that is "customary" in such material as which is in question. Not that that helps us much, since it is clear we are at the cusp of _creating_ the standards for what will be "customary" for attribution in such quite novel enterprises as Wikipedia. We do have to remember that Wikipedia really is quite unprecedented. Even if the early editions of Oxford English Dictionary relied on scraps of paper sent from a multitude of people, they would only have been giving examples of usage, not "edits" to the creative content of the dictionary itself. One very tentative reading would be to claim that it is indeed "customary" to "link to the history". I don't find that to be strongly persuasive, but I am bound to admit it is possible. And even if I were to admit that it would be arguable that this quirk of the Moral Right of Paternity could be elided in this fashion, in the context of Finnish law, one has to ask whether this workaround would suffice in all other jurisdictions which are still shackled by this self same Paternity Right? Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
