Timeline for What is a good attribution while reusing StackExchange content within StackExchange ?
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| Jan 24, 2011 at 12:19 | comment | added | Oli Mod | @Maxime Yes the author of a post can license their work as they wish as it's always theirs (they just grant StackOverflow Inc a CC-etc license). @others the license doesn't explictly allow "fair use" because fair use is supposed to be a mechanism for using work out of license, fairly. Unfortunately, as Stefano points out, it's a pain to actually screw down on which fair-use laws you follow and then apply. It's simply easier just to use it under the CC-BY-SA license. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 11:07 | comment | added | Fred Nurk | @Maxime: No, fair use is not like CC-BY-SA; at least not as CC-BY-SA is applied to this site. The license here has very specific requirements (such as a hyperlink to the profile of the author with a very specific nuance of how to hyperlink) that are not required under fair use (or similar). | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 11:05 | comment | added | Fred Nurk | @StefanoPalazzo: I was hoping not to open that can of worms, but did want to give an example of what I meant. The point is you can use something as allowed by a license, or as allowed by something other than a license, but this question seems to be only concerned with the former rather than the latter. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 10:35 | comment | added | Maxime R. | @Oli regarding #3 I wondered if an author could allow to bypass some license restrictions (like the attribution requirement). I will edit my question to clarify this point. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 10:26 | comment | added | Maxime R. | @StefanoPalazzo Fair Use also requires attribution : author and source. So it does not seems to make a difference here with the cc-by-sa license. As I understand it, it allows us to cite copyrighted content as if it has a cc-by-sa license for small excerpts. | |
| Jan 11, 2011 at 11:25 | comment | added | Stefano Palazzo | Regarding Fair Use: the term, as far as I know, is specific to the USA (maybe others). The EU restricts copying in a much more complicated way. The EU directive 2001/29/E §5.2 onwards restrict this (and I'm trying my best to understand it here) to works that are not even indirectly commercial. So, from what I understand, it makes no difference whether the citation is small or large, because we're indirectly commercial. (I am not even close to being a lawyer) :-) | |
| Jan 11, 2011 at 2:30 | comment | added | Fred Nurk | Your example in #3 doesn't meet the moral and legal requirement you mention in #1: it's missing the author name and a hyperlink to the profile of the author. Of course, this doesn't address that a small enough quote may or may not need a license, how it is covered under fair use, etc.; but if one were to say the license didn't apply to the quoted bit for any reason, the whole question seems moot. Do we need to follow the attribution requirements exactly as specified, or ...? | |
| Jan 10, 2011 at 23:53 | history | answered | OliMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |