On 21 March 2012 23:07, Alhen alhen.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Will it be terribly bad to post Commons pictures on Facebook? User jduranboger had the idea to promote Wikimedia Bolivia by posting a different picture about Bolivia every week. Take a look at it here[1].
So, my question is if by doing this we fulfill the terms of cc-by-sa 3.0 or is there a way to post facebook pages providing another way to mention the author and the terms of the licence.
Neat idea!
I am no expert, but the current system you use of listing the author and license in the "image description" field, with links to Commons, should be fine. Readers do have to click through to see the author/license - on the other hand, they have to do this on Wikimedia projects as well, so we can't really complain!
The only catch might be Facebook itself, which has in the TOS that:
"For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License)."
I am not sure if *that* is CC-compatible...