[Chapter-delegates] Copyright / Status of documents (was ITU)

[Joly MacFie]

While it's a fair idea, Veni, it's hard to imagine any government
actually attributing ISOC in any statements. The cc-by licence does in
fact say that the rights holder can specify the precise wording /
method of attribution however.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

But copyright status has little to do with whether a document is
'public' - that's essentially just a matter of accessability.

It is a little confusing, in the case of this, and the earlier Open
Networking letter, as to the status of the documents. This is, as
specified, merely a 'briefing' - neither it nor the earlier 'letter'
have the weight of an official policy statement. Indeed it was
suggested that the letter be further discussed before gaining
'statement' status. Nevertheless it was published on the ISOC site,
making it, in effect, a public statement.

The briefing - an email attachment - is an internal document,
(although, technically speaking, it is publically available at
http://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/chapter-delegates/2010-March/005949.html
). Given its purpose Veni is correct, some boilerplate on how it may
be used would be appropriate.

I think some standard expressions would be useful in general for all
Chapters to use in such matters, e.g. "The views expressed here are on
behalf of ... and may not reflect any official position of the
Internet Society" etc..

j



On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> This is what I asked, and while Bill said the document can be used freely,
> there's nothing inside the document, a waive of copyright, which I think is
> essential, if we want to see it also public. Right now, everything that ISOC
> submits, goes into the ITU website, and is only accessible with a password.
>
> Bill, can you put probably a few lines on the first page of the document,
> suggesting it is not copyrighted (C) by ISOC? Actually, it might be good
> idea to do that with ALL documents, prepared by ISOC, and published on your
> web site. By default it should be Creative Commons - Attribution, for
> example http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
>
> veni
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Kabani <kabani.asif at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>> Thank you for the document, seems good for the ITU just one question the
>> ownership of document and rights issues need to be address.
>
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