On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Richard Symonds <[email protected]> wrote: > > The CC family of licences [...] however, say that > you need to have attribution using a byline next to the image, in the > fashion 'Horation Nelson/CC-BY-SA'.
Err, where? Looking at the text of the CC-BY-SA-3.0, it looks to me like it says to "provide, reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing" various information, but doesn't specify exactly how this is to be presented. It even explicitly says "The credit required by this Section 4(c) may be implemented in any reasonable manner". Is linking to an image description page with all this information reasonable to the medium of an online encyclopedia using the MediaWiki software? It also says you must "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work", but it doesn't seem to specify what exactly "keep intact" means. If you take a CC-licensed mp3 with a copyright notice in the id3 tag and use it as part of the soundtrack for your feature film, you can't exactly keep the id3 tag but you could transfer it to the credits. Does that keep it intact? If you crop a copyright notice watermark off of an image but transcribe the text of the notice to the image's metadata (or MediaWiki file description page), does that keep it intact? The "armchair lawyers" on Wikipedia and Commons typically answer these questions as "yes". If you really want to know the answers to all these questions, ask a real lawyer and/or take it to court for an actual ruling. > - Has this discussion been had before, if so, where? It has come up on enwiki's Village pump several times. Probably on Commons's equivalent as well. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
