James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
For the last 12 years Flickr have a system where people can click on a link and get the HTML or BBCODE that properly attributes the image along with the link to the license and all the rest of the requirements for the CC license. Why can't commons do the same?
Otherwise its not hard to properly attribute a CC- licensed image.
This was provided in MediaViewer some years ago. (See e.g. today's Commons POTD https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ehrenstetten_-_%C3%96lbergkapelle6.jpg#/media/File:Ehrenstetten_-_%C3%96lbergkapelle6.jpg, unless you're logged into an account that has the feature disabled.)
On viewing the image/media file, users can click the "share" icon, then pick "embed", and they get an HTML response contains the uploader account name (with link), the licence name (with link), and a link to the media file's page on wiki.
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That procedure leads to the result (word-wrapped):
| <p> | <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ehrenstetten_-_%C3%96lbergkapelle6.jpg#/media/File:Ehrenstetten_-_%C3%96lbergkapelle6.jpg"> | <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Ehrenstetten_-_%C3%96lbergkapelle6.jpg" alt="Ehrenstetten - Ölbergkapelle6.jpg" width="16247" height="6083"> | </a> | <br> | By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Taxiarchos228" title="User:Taxiarchos228">Taxiarchos228</a> - | <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>, | <a href="http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en" title="Free Art License">FAL</a>, | <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41725272">Link</a> | </p>
I. e., the author is credited as "Taxiarchos228". The note under the image says (in bold): "Als Gegenleistung für die kostenlose (nichtgewerbliche) Nutzung muss der Weiternutzer nur die Lizenzbedingungen einhalten und den Fotografen (mei- nen vollständigen Klarnamen Wladyslaw Sojka sowie die ver- linkte Website www.sojka.photo) als Urheber nennen."
The used Free Art License says in "2.2 Freedom to Distrib- ute, to Perform in Public":
| You have the right to distribute copies of this work; wheth- | er modified or not, whatever the medium and the place, with | or without any charge, provided that you:
| - […]
| - specify to the recipient the names of the author(s) of the | originals, including yours if you have modified the work,
| - specify to the recipient where to access the originals | (either initial or subsequent).
| […]
I'm not convinced that "Taxiarchos228" is the "name" of the author as required by the license.
Tim