Re: Attribution is not required in public domain materials

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Lars Gaarden <larsg[_at_]eurorights.org> wrote:

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As long as you own copyright in your works, you have the control over attribution. Once your copyright expires, your control over attribution also expires (except in France). False attribution is actionable as long as you own copyright. That is not the main concern in this thread of discussion.

The question is whether you want attribution whenever a person copies the public domain elements from your works whose copyright protection are still valid. Say, I read your 100-page report and I glean 100 ideas from it (assuming I can find one idea per page). Then, I express 100 ideas in my own words (note that there is no verbatim copy) without any attribution to your work. Do you have problem with that?

What if I say that these 100 ideas are mine?

> Usually not. However, if I copy a considerable amount of an expression
> it seems fair to give attribution. The same if a particular person
> gave me a particular idea or insight that is important.

Does this mean that you want to have the ability to decide whether to provide attribution for the ideas without anyone forcing you to provide attribution?

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
http://www.boycottcopyright.com

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 5,682

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Thu Jun 12 2003 - 19:17:42 GMT