Anthony wrote:
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.
I don't think anybody can dispute you just quoted me highly out of context.
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.
No, that is precisely a false dilemma. there are a whole range of issues to consider, and those aren't even the necessarily most cogent ones. In some circumstances maximizing ease of redistribution and the rights of the author go hand in hand.
And in some corner cases, idiots (and I am not meaning you but specifically some of your less clueful opponents) will argue that sacrificing the authors pride of doing good in a copyleft context is a necessary price to pay to make it easier to redistribute. This is false, and I am willing to argue against this statement when posited at any forum in any fashion, if I am given my right to express my arguments.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen