The attribution tag is for questions about providing acknowledgement of the original or prior author(s) of or contributors to a work protected by copyright particularly as required by Creative Commons or similar licenses.
Questions tagged [attribution]
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Does CC BY-SA permit denial of attribution if the requested pseudonym is political?
According to CC-BY-SA 4.0, § 3(a)(1), "Attribution. If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must: [...] retain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with the Licensed Material:"
identification of the…
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What does "in any reasonable manner" of the Creative Commons Attribution clause mean?
One of the requirements for Attribution when sharing CC-licensed material that requires attribution is to retain:
identification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and any others designated to receive attribution, in any reasonable manner…
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Moral rights / attribution for software written for a company
I understand that software written during a employment/contract with a Company belongs to said Company (e.g. they hold the copyright to software source code and other IP produced during the course of the employment/contract).
The question is: how…
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Is it necessary to audibly announce a copyright notice when using music licensed under Creative Commons Attribution?
I would like to use music licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) as on-hold music; however, the only way to provide attribution would be to announce a copyright notice prior to playing the song. That's certainly…
Travis Warlick
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Mention of open source license in product
We have a product that heavily relies on open source licenses like Apache 2.0, GPL etc.
Our product is a service that we host inhouse and our customers use (like Basecamp), like a Saas, so nobody would ever get the source code.
I know I have to…
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Creative commons attribution and GDPR
When using content released under an open licence such as creative commons, it might be required to provide attribution to the author.
For instance, if I were to use this image from Wikimedia Commons released under CC 4.0 BY-SA, I would be required…
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Is license attribution required for server-hosted (not distributed) use
Am I required to show license and attribution for libraries I don't distribute but use on the web server? Whether to produce the web pages I serve or to access data sources, etc.
To phrase it another way; is it about what I distribute, or what I use…
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Attributing the Assistance of an Online Translator for a Book's Chapter---Is It Necessary?
I have recently finished a work in which one of the chapters is based upon a translation of a nineteenth century document in which I have made use of a free online translator. Where the translator seemed to be at fault, I have done the translation…
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Referencing books or researches in a medium article for a potential profit
So, I'm writing an article for Medium and I need to back up my words with some proofs. I found the researches all publicly available, via Google Search, some just PDF's from, some are leading to jstor.org.
And my work of course is not a standalone…
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Does acceptance of communication with identifying characteristics originating from a disputed territory imply recognition of that territory?
To give an example:
One of the more well known currently disputed territories is Crimea. As telecommunication services, and users of such, do continue to operate from that territory under the aegis of a Russian persona, (like a Crimean based website…
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Copyright vs. right to attribution
Feist Publication, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340, 349-50 (1991) (citations omitted) gives the primary purpose of copyright:
The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but [t]o promote the Progress…
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Howto correctly attribute GPL material in GPL software?
If one integrates content (code, fonts, etc.) that is published under GPL in a software application that is published under GPL as well, how to correctly attribute the authors of the integrated parts?
In detail it would be interesting to know
How…
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Can artists file for plagiarism if their art is used in AI models to make AI art, given that there is proof they're the authors of their work?
(I am an IT student writing a report proposing using blockchain technology to attribute "art" files, used in AI models, to their authors. I know next to nothing about copyright laws for creative works)
Suppose metadata in the files used for AI…
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Citing whole mailing list messages on the web
When I cite a complete message from a mailing list, omitting all personal information, if any, that is relatively concise (“Hi”, definition of problem, question, “Thank You”), can I cite the message publicly on a website?
The message is a question…
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Attributing Wikipedia articles in a book
I have written a book. It is a collection of texts copied from Wikipedia articles. Then I attach multiple-choice questions for checking students' reading comprehension.
Is it enough if I state that texts are taken from Wikipedia.org at the end of…
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