All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXIV

[robkelk]

A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator  
by Cory Doctorow

Don't know if this might be an issue for the All the Tropes wiki, but thought I'd pass it along after I read it.

TL;DR - Copyright trolls going after people with pre-4.0 CC who make minor textual errors in the CC writeup.  Or it could be overblown and the author is going into a rant after they hit him.

In this particular case, the author is one of the people who created the original CC licenses. He knows what he's talking about.

As for ATT... we have the "fair dealing" exemption to protect us, since we both actually do analysis of the works that we list and make an active effort of ensuring misinformation does not appear on the wiki. (If we didn't do both, we might not qualify.) But it's still worth checking what we do have.

* robkelk takes a quick look, and realizes this won't be a one-day task

Who owns the "Mechanical Boy Pino" bot? I see an upload by this bot citing CC BY NC SA 2.5 that doesn't provide an attribution.


EDIT: Category:CC BY NC 2.5 Images is all xkcd - I don't see Randall Munroe suing us, since we make a habit of attributing xkcd in the capitalization that he prefers.