Re: CC-BY : "clarification letter" ?

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>]

MJ Ray wrote:

> > The letter could just clarify that (1) the author names don't have to 
> > be prominent,
> 
> That would probably work.

:-)

> > (2) the license does not interfere with fair-use rights 
> > (e.g. quoting you on a bibliography)
> 
> Is this trying to reverse the author name purge condition? I'm not
> sure that appealing to fair use covers it.

Not the whole thing. The problem lies with the mis-use of the purge 
clause. The purge clause is good, for example, if you modify my work to 
the point where it says the opposite of what I intended, I wouldn't want 
to be in the list of authors. On the other hand, that clause should not 
prevent you from using legitimate quotes from me, or putting my work in 
your bibliography, etc. Those are the real issues with the clause. And 
that's the part that fair use would cover.


> > and (3) CC is not a party to the license.
> 
> Is this about the trademark bit? As it's not part of the
> licence, *you* can just delete that part and not include it
> in the licence for your original work. No need for a letter.

Sounds good.


> That's why it would be good for CC to make it clear.

It sounds like an easy change too. I'll keep bugging them about it.

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