| Weblog: | Trademark is Not Copyright | |
| Subject: | but attribution is a moral obligation | |
| Date: | 2003-06-04 17:27:59 | |
| From: | lucas_gonze | |
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I agree that the Supremes did the right thing, but don't think that Dastar did. You have a moral obligation to give credit where it's due.
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but attribution is a moral obligation
2003-06-04 17:35:08 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
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but attribution is a moral obligation
2003-06-04 22:00:05 Lucas Gonze [Reply | View]
No doubt the "give them all your profits because you neglected to provide attribution" is just scummy. These guys have balls of steel. Still, I think that hackers have the moral high ground on attribution (e.g. the taboo against code forks) and should push it any chance we get.
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I agree, but the operative word here is "moral." It would have been nice of them to give reference to the earlier work, but the point is that copyright, not trademark, provides such protection. In any case "give them all your profits because you neglected to provide attribution" is extremely harsh when the work in question is out of copyright.
- richard