Attribution , in copyright law, is acknowledgment as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work. If a work is under copyright, there is a long tradition of the author requiring attribution while directly quoting portions of work created by that author.
6-463: [REDACTED] Look up attribution in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Attribution may refer to: Attribution (copyright) , concept in copyright law requiring an author to be credited Attribution (journalism) , the identification of the source of reported information Attribution (law) , legal doctrines by which liability is extended to
12-478: A defendant who did not actually commit the criminal act Attribution (marketing) , concept in marketing of assigning a value to a marketing activity based on desired outcome Attribution (psychology) , concept in psychology whereby people attribute traits and causes to things they observe Extreme event attribution , estimation of how climate change affects recent extreme weather events Performance attribution , technique in quantitative finance for explaining
18-429: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Attribution (copyright) An author may formally require attribution required via a license, legally preventing others from claiming to have written the work and allowing a copyright holder to retain reputational benefits from having written it. In cases when the copyright holder is the author themselves, this behavior
24-427: Is often moralized as a sign of decency and respect to acknowledge the creator by giving them credit for the work. This said, a work in the public domain, which is any not covered by copyright, has no such attribution requirement in most parts of the world. This is the distinguishing factor between plagiarism, which is not a crime, but an unethical act, and copyright infringement, which may be a cause of legal action from
30-559: The active performance of a portfolio See also [ edit ] Attribute (disambiguation) Credits Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Attribution . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attribution&oldid=1161289024 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
36-550: The author. In most countries of the world, copyright holder attribution is not required in the original source material, due to the Berne Convention . The most fundamental form of attribution is the statement of the copyright holder's identity, often in the form Copyright © [year] [copyright holder's name] . In the United States, the preservation of such a notice was formerly an invariable requirement to prevent
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