On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:17:54AM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Matthew Jadud wrote: > >> If you borrow and edit a large chunk of someone else's text, are you >> an "author?" Were they an "co-author" of the book? >> >> I think, when borrowing, you should acknowledge the lift at the end of >> the chapter where the borrowing took place, and perhaps duplicate that >> in an overall ack at the end of the text. This acknowledges their >> contribution, but they are not directly a contributor to the new, >> unique work that the book you're writing represents. Therefore, I >> don't think they would be "co-authors" in the traditional sense. (Yes, >> this isn't "traditional," but at some point you might want an ISBN, >> and you don't want librarians to have a brain hemmorage when you try >> and put something on them that doesn't fit Dublin Core. They will make >> it fit, regardless of any new ideas you throw at them...) >> >> I would leave "co-authors" of the text to mean "people who contributed >> *directly* to the assembly of the artifact you are calling a book." If >> there are people who don't fit the title of author, add a Colophon a >> la many O'Reilly texts, where you acknowledge the editors, anyone who >> does design work on the book, the tools used, etc. I don't think that >> the re-use of CC-licensed text necessarily means that the original >> author had any creative input into The Work that the new >> book/article/etc. represents. > > All right, this is a good articulation of that funny feeling in my gut. > Thanks.
+1 I also was trying to find a way to say that but didn't know how. I was thinking of co-authors and contributors, with the latter providing something for the book but not fully accountable for the final result. - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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