[FM Discuss] updated IBD

[adam]

there is a difference between copyright notice and attribution and 
meaningful credit.

I think you are blurring them.


adam

On 06/27/2012 06:38 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
>> Even naming names is not sustainable I believe.
>
> In the UK at least, authors generally hold book copyrights, not
> publishers (unlike the music industry practice of retaining copyright in
> a sound recording and/or the composition).
>
> So naming names is vitally important to protect open books being forked
> into closed versions (otherwise how can you alert the copyright holders
> and free-license-granters that their book is being distributed non-free?)
>
>> The basic conclusion I got to is that attribution is transient.
>
> Not if you're Agatha Christie, she's still in print :-)
>
>> It should be captured for a time with a profile connected to the
>> artifact (book) and then maintained somewhere in a database but
>> doesnt have to be keep being brought up or repeated or carried with
>> the object...
>
> That would run counter to the GPL, where the copyright notice is vital.
> A separate notice would almost certainly be lost.
>
>> the new contributors should tell their story, but dont need to feel
>> they must duplicate 14 pages of credits...or more...
>
> The answer to that might be to put the copyright notice in a condensed,
> machine-readable form, rather than not print it.
>
> Also there's the issue of fairness. Does the person who wrote most of
> the book get to have their name first? Academic publishers deal with
> minor contributors using 'authors et al', can we use something similar?
>
> If I take your book, and make some bad edits, then publish it under my
> name, would that be fair? Worse case scenario: someone makes bad edits,
> claims authorship, then attributes the original ideas to you, thereby
> associating you with both the bad edit and whatever crazy ideas they
> added. (It happened to me with two entirely separate magazine articles).
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>
>

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