On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com >> wrote: > >> I don't claim to have made a special study of the issue, but have had it >> pretty much forced down my throat by circumstances. While our laws here >> in Finland are much worse than Iceland for instance -- and still lightyears >> better than current (much less projected) US legislation -- we have a nice >> clause in our laws that allow for "shared" attribution, when the work is a >> massively collaborative work, like wikipedia. The law still does not allow >> for the site to use TOS to circumvent moral rights, but it is very nicely >> fine-grained in allowing things that would be useful for wikipedia, but >> that is currently not available to us, because there persists this view >> that >> we are "unported" and merely acknowledge the right of countries to not >> adhere to the onerous and WMF-centric attribution praxis. It would be >> very useful for the foundation to admit, that absolutely nobody needs to >> attribute WMF if they just mention a few chief authors of the content. >> > > That's basically what the Terms of Use say: > "Attribution is an important part of these licenses. We consider it giving > credit where credit is due – to authors like yourself. When you contribute > text, you agree to be attributed in any of the following fashions: ... > Through a list of all authors (but please note that any list of authors may > be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions)." > Are you suggesting that it should be changed to say "Through a list of the * > major* authors"? That might not be a bad idea, although I'm not sure it's > permitted by the existing CC license. >
You may have missed the fact I used the term "praxis", rather than "lexis". I do want to re-iterate that what is significant is not the legal language of the TOS, but the way it is represented to the using public. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
