[Licom-l] External content attribution

[Andrew Leung]

Don't forget to add the "If there is discrepancy between English and (the local language), English version shall prevail".

Andrew

"Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."




> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:47:35 -0700
> From: erik at wikimedia.org
> To: licom-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: ariel at wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Licom-l] External content attribution
> 
> (I am CC-ing Ariel Glenn as he will help with the implementation of
> the new licensing terms.)
> 
> During the licensing discussion, some people correctly pointed out
> that the proposed terms on the edit screen didn't include any mention
> of third party content: what is it, under what circumstances can it be
> imported, what should attribution look like, etc.? We did propose to
> state the following in the copyright policy:
> 
> "You may import any text from other sources that is available under
> the CC-BY-SA license, even if it is not available under the GNU Free
> Documentation License. You are under no obligation whatsoever to
> obtain such content also under the GFDL. However, you may not import
> text that is only available under the GFDL. If you import text under
> the CC-BY-SA license, you must abide by the terms of the license;
> specifically, you must, in a reasonable fashion, credit the author(s).
> Where such credit is commonly given through page histories (such as
> wiki-to-wiki copying), it is sufficient to give attribution in the
> edit summary, which is recorded in the page history, when importing
> the content."
> 
> I would propose the following to address any remaining uncertainty:
> 
> PROPOSAL 1: Amend the terms of the edit screen. Replace the following phrase:
> 
> "You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it
> from a public domain or similar free resource."
> 
> With:
> 
> "If you did not write this yourself, it must be available under terms
> consistent with ((copyright policy)), and you agree to follow any
> relevant licensing requirements."
> 
> PROPOSAL 2: Issue a recommendation for each project community to
> develop guidelines for the attribution and inclusion of external
> content. This recommendation could look roughly like this:
> 
> "Whereas the WMF licensing update decision was explicitly designed to
> facilitate import of existing educational content under CC-BY-SA and
> compatible licenses into Wikimedia projects, we hereby recommend that
> each Wikimedia project (e.g. "the English Wikipedia", "the Spanish
> Wikibooks")  develop guidelines for when the inclusion of externally
> published content is appropriate, and how attribution should occur
> inside the project. Care should be taken to respect the wishes of
> copyright holders: if externally published content cannot be
> attributed in a fashion that is agreeable to the copyright holder
> (consistent with the license they published it under) and to the
> project community, it cannot be included."
> 
> PROPOSAL 3: Amend the terms of the copyright policy to include a sentence:
> 
> "Further guidelines on attribution and inclusion of external content
> can be found in ((attribution-guidelines-url))".
> 
> That sentence would only be rendered out if the
> ((attribution-guidelines-url)) message exists, i.e., if the community
> has developed the necessary guidelines.
> 
> Thoughts? If this makes sense as a start, I'll begin hacking on the
> final site terms with these changes in mind.
> 
> Erik
> -- 
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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