Are you a lawyer?
I am not. Are you?
Including a link to a Creative Commons license in a comment footer will not do that.
It is when you give it a different name which doesn’t reflect the actual behaviour of the license.
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CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 7 months agoBecause you are effectively spreading misinformation.
Are you a lawyer?
People already struggle to understand copyright. Adding more confusion is doing everyone reading your license a disservice.
Including a link to a Creative Commons license in a comment footer will not do that.
kevincox@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is when you give it a different name
That’s not a different name. It’s a sentence that’s a layman’s description of my intention for including it.
Initially I was just using the actual Creative Commons license name, but it was confusing people just seeing letters and numbers.
which doesn’t reflect the actual behaviour of the license.
[Citation required.]
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nice how you never answered if you’re a lawyer.
“I DO NOT GRANT PERMISSION TO LAW ENFORCEMENT TO READ THIS COMMENT. ANY USE OF THIS COMMENT BY LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR ANY REASON IS ILLEGAL. THIS COMMENT CANNOT BE USED AS EVIDENCE AGAINST ANY NON-LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONS IN RELATION TO ANY CRIME.”
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 7 months ago
Adding a CC link and falsely claiming it’s an anti-AI licence is misinformation and undoubtedly does add confusion.