David Gerard wrote:
2009/6/24 Durova nadezhda.durova@gmail.com:
Well, taking a first stab at this. Here's my letter to Wired: Per the recent New York Times admission that one of your editors plagiarized content from Wikipedia uncredited, I respectfully request credit for media work of mine that Wired has reproduced without credit.
Restoration is painstaking work on behalf of the cultural commons and well worth encouraging and crediting.
It's a different question whether it can use the same big stick of copyright that CC or GFDL can. Possibly not in the US, per Bridgeman vs Corel. (Though any actual statement on the subject would have to be in court.)
I would expect that asking nicely and encouraging credit of restorers is the best that can be done at this stage, and that it strikes me as worth doing.
I'm not entirely sure that I'd agree that not crediting a restorer (when crediting the original) would count as "plagiarism." That's a different kettle of fish, I think.
I agree. But on the moral rights angle, it does breach the inalienable right of paternity to a work. Paternity is there even for modifications.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen