[Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Wed Feb 4 13:43:01 UTC 2009


Andre Engels wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Huib Laurens <sterkebak at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't really think that would be enough.. I am not sure but the
>> poster and the license need to stay together.. If the attribution is
>> on a paper with the poster the license and author can get lost...
> 
> There is nothing that says that the license and author should not get
> lost. The obligation to provide author, licensing and copyright
> information exists when the work is distributed or published, not
> necessarily the whole time that it is in existence.

My amateur legal opinion is that it's legally OK, but the question is 
whether we want and can encourage further reuse by ensuring that the two 
are permanently together. (For example, if source, author and licence 
info could be printed on the back of the poster.)




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