Yeah, you need a Uniform Reference Indicator (URI) for every use of a CC-BY photo. Look at sections 4a, 4b, and 4c here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Every day news outlets and blogs and most everyone online violates this and it's not enforced by anyone (Creative Commons or otherwise), but agreed we should be a model on this as we are one of the larger free license image repositories out there. Some discussion of the matter here in relation to Facebook: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/CC-BY-SA_on_Facebook -Matthew On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Paul Selitskas <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Is it necessary to provide attribution and license text URL after > every use of CC image? We can make a page 'Copyrights' on > wikilovesmonuments.org where every thing will be attributed. I mean > the banner stuff, website stuff, etc. Anyway, we'd have to link to > this page in the banner or what... > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Platonides and Pete, > > in any case, we cannot use an image licenced under a Creative Commons > > licence (which disqualifies almost all pictures from Wiki Loves > > Monuments), as they all require an attribution (the name or pseudonym > > of the author/copyright holder) and a URL to the licence text (not the > > deed!). > > > > (Please also note that Susana specifically mentioned she does not need > > to be attributed to when the WLM logo is used in relation to the > > contest; however, the licence still requires a working URL to its > > text, so we are violating its requirements here, too.) > > > > I agree that we (the Wikimedia community) should set an example in the > > usage of freely licenced files, so I am thinking as what we should do > > here. > > > > We have two options: (1) remove the image created by Saibo from the > > banners (but we should then also remove the WLM logo) or (2) add > > working links to the images in the banners, and possibly also protect > > their description pages; this would, however, mean that we'll need to > > rebuild the templates so the links work for the files as well as for > > the websites; to do that, we could only use the text as the link. > > > > > > Tomasz > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > > > > -- > З павагай, > Павел Селіцкас/Paul Selitskas > Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects > [email protected], +375257408304 > Skype: p.selitskas > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org*
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