On 5/15/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
There is no problem, really. The point I was making is that we don't want to make it any *less* accessable because it can be shown that the people who want and need the information already have some difficulity finding it. It's not exactly obvious that the image is clickable at all. In any case, we can not hide the attribution information.
Heh, ok, so people who are looking to follow the link to another article click and get the wrong behaviour. People actually looking for the image info don't think of clicking. Everyone loses!
Would it be possible, on each and every page, to have a "Image credits" link which would provide links to the attribution page of every image used on that page, no matter how it was used? Then professionals would know to always click on that same "Image credits" link placed in the bottom corner, for example.
A feature that lets people hide the attribution page and as a result violate our image licensing obligations can not be accepted, we must be aware of that.
Ahem, everyone, including us, violates our licenses left, right and centre.
We need to know all the expected use cases so that we can produce a solution which preserves our obligations, avoids causing attribution problems elsewhere, and meets our needs. So please detail where you can see 'linkable images' being used outside of the main page.
Already did. I'm sure there are other uses too.
I'm not following you. If we fail to provide attribution in a clear, consistent, and accessable manner then we have no right to distribute the image at all.
Our current system covers the situation you've proposed just fine. The problem of lacking concise machine readable attribution is only a problem for the proposal that makes the image look like a redirect.
It'd also be handy for doing user image galleries. Currently all uploads are treated as belong to you.
The reason I tried to split out the 'main/portal' page cases is because another possible solution would be to create an image tag flag which allowed you to specify a link target for the image but placed a small 'image credits' link right below the image which takes you to the image page.
Yep, that's feasible.
We could achieve something like that by using an image caption, but captions are realestate intensive.
Make them short then :) "cred"? "IMG" ?
Steve