[Foundation-l] CC attribution with cut'n'pasted text - Tynt's Tracer Tool
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16060 Basically, if you cut'n'paste text, it appends a CC credit line to the pasted text. Obviously the paster can remove it, but it does remind them this is licensed, not PD. Worth using for our stuff? A bit obnoxious? What do you think? - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] CC attribution with cut'n'pasted text - Tynt's Tracer Tool
2009/7/24 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16060 Basically, if you cut'n'paste text, it appends a CC credit line to the pasted text. Obviously the paster can remove it, but it does remind them this is licensed, not PD. Worth using for our stuff? A bit obnoxious? What do you think? I vote for a bit obnoxious. What if they are using it as fair use, or under the GFDL? Or copy it to something which is already CC? Or something which is entirely personal use so attribution is pointless? Or to some large document where inline attribution is inappropriate? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] CC attribution with cut'n'pasted text - Tynt's Tracer Tool
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/7/24 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16060 Basically, if you cut'n'paste text, it appends a CC credit line to the pasted text. Obviously the paster can remove it, but it does remind them this is licensed, not PD. Worth using for our stuff? A bit obnoxious? What do you think? I vote for a bit obnoxious. What if they are using it as fair use, or under the GFDL? Or copy it to something which is already CC? Or something which is entirely personal use so attribution is pointless? Or to some large document where inline attribution is inappropriate? In that case they can highlight the attribution and press backspace! ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] CC attribution with cut'n'pasted text - Tynt's Tracer Tool
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/7/24 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16060 Basically, if you cut'n'paste text, it appends a CC credit line to the pasted text. Obviously the paster can remove it, but it does remind them this is licensed, not PD. Worth using for our stuff? A bit obnoxious? What do you think? I vote for a bit obnoxious. What if they are using it as fair use, or under the GFDL? Or copy it to something which is already CC? Or something which is entirely personal use so attribution is pointless? Or to some large document where inline attribution is inappropriate? +1 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] CC attribution with cut'n'pasted text - Tynt's Tracer Tool
2009/7/24 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu: In that case they can highlight the attribution and press backspace! Sure, but we shouldn't make it unnecessarily difficult for people to reuse our content and tidying up after our crude attempt to force attribution would qualify as unnecessarily difficult. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] CC attribution with cut'n'pasted text - Tynt's Tracer Tool
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/7/24 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu: In that case they can highlight the attribution and press backspace! Sure, but we shouldn't make it unnecessarily difficult for people to reuse our content and tidying up after our crude attempt to force attribution would qualify as unnecessarily difficult. I believe the alternate usability interpretation is more persuasive. That by law they are required to provide attribution and yet many users are totally unaware a) that they are required to provide attribution b) that a free encyclopedia cares about attribution in the first place and c) of the specifics of providing attribution. If we consider the burdens that I have just outlined as compared with the burden of highlighting and deleting some text its clear that automatically solving the 90% case for users is the correct thing to do. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] CC attribution with cut'n'pasted text - Tynt's Tracer Tool
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/24 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu: In that case they can highlight the attribution and press backspace! Sure, but we shouldn't make it unnecessarily difficult for people to reuse our content and tidying up after our crude attempt to force attribution would qualify as unnecessarily difficult. (Disclaimer: I haven't looked at this, it's probably absolutely hideous for all kinds of technical reasons) Eh, backspace isn't much of a difficulty. It could probably also be made to only trigger for text over some particular size. You're not likely to have a legal obligation for a couple of words, but if you copy several paragraphs you'll have both a legal and an ethical obligation to provide some form of attribution. I could see more practical issues with it complicating moving text around in articles. The applicable principle of usability is that the default behaviour should be what is the usually the right behaviour and you should be able to override it when it isn't. Attribute on copy fits that principle. A while back I put in a JS kludge on commons that made right clicking on thumbnails remind you once and only once (via a cookie) that you can save a higher resolution version from the image page. Erik eventually removed it based on the completely reasonable complaint that it left the same kind of bad taste as sites that totally disable image saving. So, how does this solution avoid 'feeling' like sites that do obnoxious things? I notice that my browser spins busy whenever I highlight. Is that okay? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] CC attribution with cut'n'pasted text - Tynt's Tracer Tool
2009/7/24 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com: Eh, backspace isn't much of a difficulty. It could probably also be made to only trigger for text over some particular size. You're not likely to have a legal obligation for a couple of words, but if you copy several paragraphs you'll have both a legal and an ethical obligation to provide some form of attribution. I don't think it is a good idea to have a computer making judgements on substantiality. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
