[Foundation-l] CC attribution with cut'n'pasted text - Tynt's Tracer Tool

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/7/24 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> I believe the alternate usability interpretation is more persuasive. That by
> law they are required to provide attribution and yet many users are totally
> unaware a) that they are required to provide attribution b) that a "free"
> encyclopedia cares about attribution in the first place and c) of the
> specifics of providing attribution. If we consider the burdens that I have
> just outlined as compared with the burden of highlighting and deleting some
> text its clear that automatically solving the 90% case for users is the
> correct thing to do.

Maybe, but not by overiding the standard behaviour of copy and paste.
A link in the sidebar to details of how to attribute this article
would be better.