[Aust-NZ] Superficial review of copyright issues related to collection and publication of education material on OSGeo Website(LINK) [SEC=PERSONAL]

[Roppola, Antti]

My personal opinion is that homeopathic attribution is a potential
snowball for derivatives like mash-ups.

Have a search for "the obnoxious BSD advertising clause" to see how
mandatory attribution can go awry.

IMHO, attribution needs greater care and thought when the product is
more likely to remain identifiable in a chain of derivatives.

Loss of attribution would probably be a "reasonableness" test. That is,
I don't think you can set rules for this up-front and expect to cover
every likely derivative product. At some point borrowing ceaes to be
fair use.

Cheers,

Antti

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From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of John Smith
Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 2010 4:40 PM
To: scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au
Cc: Robert Coup; aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] Superficial review of copyright issues related to
collection and publication of education material on OSGeo Website(LINK)

On 3 August 2010 16:21, Simon Cropper
<scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> Makes me wonder though, in a textural non-exact document, how much 
> changes would a needed to trigger the loss of attribution or 
> conversely how much

I don't think you can ever forgo attribution by just making changes,
because you are deriving from their original information.

> change would the original author accept before they were willing to 
> forgo attribution.

This would be up to individual authors.


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