On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < cimonavaro@gmail.com> wrote:
Mike Linksvayer wrote:
As others have pointed out on this or nearby threads, attribution is highly medium specific.
[snip] However, if what you say happens to in fact be correct (never mind if it has been previously covered in these threads or not), that would be quite significant, in particular in those jurisdictions where moral rights are defined in law.
I don't think there's much dispute that attribution is highly medium specific. A URL printed in a textbook is clearly much different from a URL encoded into a web page. The only question is whether the specifics should focus on the rights of the author, or on maximizing ease of redistribution.