[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

Mon Oct 20 22:16:09 UTC 2008

Birgitte SB wrote:
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> --- On Mon, 10/20/08, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?
>> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 4:21 PM
>> John at Darkstar wrote:
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>>> Norwegian law says principal authors should be
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>> attributed, and I believe
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>>> its the correct thing to do. It is not a good reason
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>> to say that today
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>>> we can't identify those authors. Most of the
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>> articles I've been involved
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>>>  in writing has had very few principal authors, most
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>> of them only one or
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>>> two.
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>>> In Norwegian law the principal authors can choose what
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>> to do with the
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>>> article, even relicense it, without asking any of the
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>> other writers.
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>>> It should be interesting to make some statistics over
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>> how many principal
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>>> authors there are for articles from Wikipedia. I think
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>> the nom are
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>>> pretty few, even for those articles that has grown
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>> very large.
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>>> John
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>> In Finnish moral rights law, the right to be identified
>> as the author of ones work is inalienable and absolute,
>> and cannot be voided even through a contractual
>> transaction.
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> I don't believe the right to be identified as an author is necessarily the same disscusion as the attribution appropriate for various formats. Publishing a work without any explict attribution to an author =! voiding that author's right to be identified as an author of the work. 
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As a matter of fact, I don't believe this is accurate.

As I understand it, the "paternity right" in the
Finnish section on moral rights in law, implies
that publication without attribution, can happen
with explicit permission of the author, but the
author can rescind that permission at any time.

Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen