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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada

Re: Ask Great Granny, and she can tell you a story about copyright...

From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk_-at-_chinet.com>
To: flora-admin-help_-at-_flora.org
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 12:27:16 -0500 (CDT)

At 10:32am -0400, 05/29/03, Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca> wrote:

>  I am forwarding this letter from Rosaleen Dickson that is a story about
>a situation that recently happened.  Only slightly edited, mostly putting
>spaces around URL's so that the archiving system will properly make them
>into links.

>  As someone who works with volunteers I know quite well that for work
>people are doing for free, attribution and recognition is very important.
>This is why I believe that protection the moral rights of volunteer
>creators, especially on free/libre and free/gratis sites like FLORA.org,
>is so important!

As you've explained repeatedly, the language you proposed is for YOUR
protection, not for the protection of authors. If copyright is ceded to you,
you (or whomever has ownership of the matieral at any point in the future) will
control subsequent use and attribution.

You've clearly stated that your intent is to allow what happened to Ms. Dickson
to happen. With or without proper attribution, the situation was unjust.

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