[Commons-l] Metadata and Professional usage of Commons photographs

[Rama Rama]

Hello everyone,

today one of my photographs was again published in a newspaper, without
attribution nor licencing. I phoned the newspaper and it turns out that the
photograph in question happened to be "in a photo database", without any
further information (How it popped up there like this is anyone's guess, and
I am investigating this question).

The interesting part is that the journalist told me that he had checked the
metadata before publication. Having found nothing, he went on saying "all
rights reserved". Hence the bit of interesting information:

*we should use metadata to specify licencing and attribution information.*

I'll sleep a little bit less stupid tonight.
  --- Rama
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