This is a great point! What, if any, accepted standards are there for providing adequate credit in a commons licensed work? What would you like to see? Name of contributor, obviously, but URL as well? Email address or other contact info? Site attribution? Copyright info? Just brainstorming here...
Dave
Magnus Manske wrote:
On 10/24/07, Rama Rama ramaneko@gmail.com wrote:
An author has contacted me to use some of my photographs in a book (a big, serious, scholarly, several-volume thing). He contacted me, and several other users, after seeing images on Commons. Consequences:
- Commons does get some visibility, and provides images to serious
work. Cheer up, people !
Yes! I have been contacted about two images as well.
- The author is enquiring how I wish to be credited. What do you
people think would be a concise yet effective way to mention Wikimedia Commons in such cases ?
An additional, but related issue: While the ones asking for permission were aware of free licenses, their publisher insisted on a written permission (even if it's just an email, which is ridiculous).
Maybe we should set up a page ([[Commons:Permission and credits]]?) that
- Gives "blanket permission" for free licenses (like "By uploading
files under a free license, the author gives permission for everyone to use them under certain conditions:"; IANAL) 2. Gives an example of an image credit
Magnus
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