On 7 February 2014 14:57, Estermann Beat beat.estermann@bfh.ch wrote: ...
I’m curious to see how this is concretely going to be implemented on Commons
One thing I like to show GLAMs that have these concerns is ideas for credit templates used by other institutions as well as a design for their own. As these can be quite smart with links to the relevant catalogue on their website and a request to keep the source attributed on re-use, this may allay any concerns that provenance would be lost on PD works.
Positive steps to track re-use and work out if attribution is being preserved would help show how much this is a risk or not. My expectation is that using a nice credit template would be at least as effective as using a CC-BY licence and in the long term is less likely to be removed or replaced on a work that is public domain, for example due to its age.
We do not know for sure how this project will work out yet as we are only at the expectations stage. It should make for a nice case study when complete.
Fae