Yeah, you need a Uniform Reference Indicator (URI) for every use of a CC-BY photo. Look at sections 4a, 4b, and 4c here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Every day news outlets and blogs and most everyone online violates this and it's not enforced by anyone (Creative Commons or otherwise), but agreed we should be a model on this as we are one of the larger free license image repositories out there.
Some discussion of the matter here in relation to Facebook: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/CC-BY-SA_on_Face...
-Matthew
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Paul Selitskas p.selitskas@gmail.comwrote:
Hi everyone.
Is it necessary to provide attribution and license text URL after every use of CC image? We can make a page 'Copyrights' on wikilovesmonuments.org where every thing will be attributed. I mean the banner stuff, website stuff, etc. Anyway, we'd have to link to this page in the banner or what...
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski odder.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Platonides and Pete, in any case, we cannot use an image licenced under a Creative Commons licence (which disqualifies almost all pictures from Wiki Loves Monuments), as they all require an attribution (the name or pseudonym of the author/copyright holder) and a URL to the licence text (not the deed!).
(Please also note that Susana specifically mentioned she does not need to be attributed to when the WLM logo is used in relation to the contest; however, the licence still requires a working URL to its text, so we are violating its requirements here, too.)
I agree that we (the Wikimedia community) should set an example in the usage of freely licenced files, so I am thinking as what we should do here.
We have two options: (1) remove the image created by Saibo from the banners (but we should then also remove the WLM logo) or (2) add working links to the images in the banners, and possibly also protect their description pages; this would, however, mean that we'll need to rebuild the templates so the links work for the files as well as for the websites; to do that, we could only use the text as the link.
Tomasz
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