James Forrester <jforrester(a)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.
[…]
That procedure leads to the result (word-wrapped):
| <p>
| <a
href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ehrenstetten_-_%C3%96lbe…
| <img
src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Ehrenstetten_…
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"&g…
| </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