The credit is not wrong, but possibly somewhat incomplete. As you well know, much of the content of Wikimedia has more than one author and it is common knowledge that all of the content of Wikimedia is published as CC-BY-SA or GFDL. In the case of many authors attribution is often difficult. (In the US copyright can even be attributed to an institution – e.g. Wikimedia – rather than a person.)
So, yes, it is desirable, that the license and the author are attributed appropriately and I am sure, that Bruno will do so soon, after having read your kind reminder. The example also shows, that it is highly desirable, that all such licensing information be embedded in the (Dublin core) metadata of such a file. Then it will travel with the object. I vote for adding that to the list of best practices. In Switzerland we have by law the right of quotation – also applicable to images! And in this respect the quoted website has behaved just like any other newspaper or media in Switzerland (e.g. the NZZ), by citing the source. So, please!, let us not act like the copyright lobby and tear each other to pieces internally!! Hartwig Thomas Digitale Allmend (Legal and Public Lead of Creative Commons Licenses) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ludovic Péron Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:01 PM To: Mailing list for Wikimedia CH Subject: [Wikimediach-l] (no subject) Hi, I found this web <http://www.bjinstitute.org/newsmessage/reprostationen-des-bj-institutes-fuer-wikipedia/10a20af93816783eefe8480b92b9f042/> page on the web site of BJ Institute. Problem : This image is a CC By SA photography on Commons and the credit is wrong (good credit : Charles Andrès - CC By SA). Seeing this on the website of one of our partners, which happens to be run by one of our board members, makes me especially concerned about our credibility. Me, and some other volunteers of WMCH, spend many times to explain how to use correctly free contents. We are discussing with nationals media, with some schools, etc. We (and WMCH) loose our credibility if our contacts see this web page. So, thanks you to make correction very quickly. And I think it's necessary that our regular partners will be blameless about copyright. May be it's possible to make internal workshops. I am available for that. Regards Ludovic Péron
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