Sam Johnston wrote:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between cheap and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on the back is two prints and that IS expensive. My point has been and still is that it is nice to come up with "solutions". They have to be practical in the real world. If a proposed solution adds enough overhead, the effect will be that it will not be accepted a solution.
Thanks for another practical example of attribution stifling reuse - too bad if you ever wanted to print something like this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikimediaMosaicCapture.png
I'd be a lot more accepting of a 'Wikipedia' and/or the Wikipedia logo printed discretely in the bottom right corner of my poster than one or more meaningless usernames too.
I'm surprised that nobody is saying that there is nobody saying that each individual photo in the logo collage should be attributed.
Some countries include a simple attribution on the bottom of postage stamps. Something that size in the bottom margin of something as large as a poster that can probably be covered when it is framed would be sufficiently discrete.
Nevertheless, omitting attribution when the poster is solely for personal use is not normally an enforceable violation.
Ec