On 9/9/06, Rory Stolzenberg rory096@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/9/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 9/9/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
If the original author doesn't care about attribution, or their rights as photographer, or what happens to the image, then get them to assign the copyright to someone else in a deed. Then the other person can do whatever they want with the image, since they own the copyright.
Copyright assignment might work. But is the listed source supposed to be the author or the copyright holder?
Usually it's both since they're one and the same, but we actually want the copyright holder. It doesn't matter to us who took it, only who owns it, since that's who would be using the license that we have to know. Same with fair use images; we want to know the copyright holder, not some random website with the image (though that is helpful if it says who the copyright owner is).
I guess that sounds like a reasonable request, then. After all, one might need to contact the copyright holder in order to ask them for a different license (by-sa instead of GFDL, GPL instead of by-sa, etc).
I'll have to think of the best way to accomplish this if I want to go that route.
Anthony