I suggest to keep a pragmatic view here. Let's not like real wikipedians go into all details and hurt ourselves here - but keep the spirit of free knowledge in mind. In this case it seems obvious Susana doesn't object - if she did she would have objected long ago and she indeed indicated explicitly that she didn't require naming etc in this context.
For the stack, one of the creators of the image clearly objected to its use in this way. Then lets not make a hard deal out of it, and just replace it. It is not like we have a shortage of images. Ideally lets use a PD image (perhaps one of the organizers would like to release one for this purpose?)
There is little to win in these detailed discussions.
Lodewijk
2012/9/5 Paul Selitskas p.selitskas@gmail.com
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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