On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Durovanadezhda.durova@gmail.com wrote:
Any suggestions what to do about this?
After my recent perusals of reuses of my images, here's my take:
No one is ever going to pay attention to, let alone understand, let alone respect, let alone follow the CC-BY or GFDL requirement for credit. Soon, we will stop asking for it.
In order for it to happen, we would have to: a) Make the requirement really really prominent b) Respect it ourselves c) Vehemently complain in a very public manner when a few individuals fail to do so.
when d) we have far bigger fish to fry.
I think ultimately most organisations divide media into two categories: properietary or free. We can certainly label all our material as proprietary and tell people not to reuse it. Or we can tell people they can reuse it. But our message of "please reuse it, but ...." is not going to get through.
And why do you care anyway? Vanity? Curiosity? Is it that important? Is a little piece of text on some idiot's webpage the difference between you contributing your time next time and not? Is the gratification of your name in cyberspace your primary motivation for producing useful free images?
(These questions are rhetorical and deliberately inflammatory. Take the bait with caution.)
Steve