[cooper12]

They don't need his blessing because David Revoy explicitly released their webcomics under CC-BY. Although you're right about your clarification, I think the parent just wanted to talk about David Revoy in general rather than the author of the animation campaign.

[rootlocus]

I'm also confused about the involvement of David Revoy with this project, although it seems he isn't involved at all. I wasn't endorsing the campaign owner, I'm just sharing the love for David Revoy himself. If someone wants to support David, the best way would be to use his patreon page!

[spriggan3]

> They don't need his blessing

They are putting his name everywhere in the campaign like he is involved or something. He is clearly not. That's misleading and can be potentially detrimental to the person's reputation if the campaign ends up being a scam.

Again they might have the right to use his assets, they don't have the right to use his name to get money from people like this. That's completely wrong.

[carussell]

If the work is CC-BY, attribution the one thing that they are compelled to do. That's the whole point of the license.

[spriggan3]

> It's attribution

Give me a break, this campaign is misleading, on purpose, in order to get some money.

[carussell]

License requirements are generally not well understood at large, even among activists and other people involved with copyleft/free culture/etc. There's a plausible scenario where content author B takes content author A's work, creates something based on it, adds what looks like is the necessary (minimal) attribution that you're talking about here, and then content author A regards it as an attempt to diminish the credit that is due to them.

Content author B, being a thoughtful person and wanting to mitigate this response, but not wanting to allow B's own publication to hinge on establishing a dialogue with A beforehand, may look at this and opt to take a "safer" approach, which involves liberally giving credit so that attribution is well-known. (In other words, what the phrase "for good measure" means; no one can reasonably say that B was trying to diminish any credit due to A.)

Now, your comments here are indistinguishable from the ones someone would have posted after looking at the facts that we have and asking themselves, "what's the worst possible way to interpret this situation so that I can infer malice from this series of events?". I don't know if this is what you did, but the point is, your output here is indistinguishable from that of someone who had.

Here's where the strang-loopiness shows up and where the kicker lies: if you take exception with this line of argument, (so long as you're internally consistent) then you are necessarily compelled to be upset with your own earlier statements that you've made here.

[spriggan3]

It doesn't matter what you think. I advise anybody not to give a cent to that campaign until it is made clear whether the original artist supports it, or not.

[kdmitriev]

Everything below "production process will include following steps" makes it clear that original artist is not involved. See also this text - "The money collected from this campaign will go for production of one motion comic video, based on the «The Potion Contest» episode".

CC-BY license doesn't require approval from original author. But in this case there is an acclamation anyway - https://twitter.com/davidrevoy/status/768197367833038848

[carussell]

> It doesn't matter what you think.

What?

[kdmitriev]

It's a mandatory requirement of license to "give appropriate credit" - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed If author of the campaign wouldn't put David's name on the artwork, then that would be violation of license condition. Let me know if you can specify any other way to "give appropriate credit", without mentioning the name of original author. ^__^