[OSGeo-Edu] Re: Superficial review of copyright issues related to collection and publication of education material on OSGeo Website

[Simon Cropper]

Attached is an email responding to my copyright review published on the [Aust-
NZ] forum.

> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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