This is a great point! What, if any, accepted standards are there for
providing adequate credit in a commons licensed work? What would you
like to see? Name of contributor, obviously, but URL as well? Email
address or other contact info? Site attribution? Copyright info? Just
brainstorming here...
Dave
Magnus Manske wrote:
On 10/24/07, Rama Rama <ramaneko(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
An author has contacted me to use some of my
photographs in a book (a
big, serious, scholarly, several-volume thing). He contacted me, and
several other users, after seeing images on Commons. Consequences:
1) Commons does get some visibility, and provides images to serious
work. Cheer up, people !
Yes! I have been contacted about two images as well.
2) The author is enquiring how I wish to be
credited. What do you
people think would be a concise yet effective way to mention Wikimedia
Commons in such cases ?
An additional, but related issue: While the ones asking for permission
were aware of free licenses, their publisher insisted on a written
permission (even if it's just an email, which is ridiculous).
Maybe we should set up a page ([[Commons:Permission and credits]]?) that
1. Gives "blanket permission" for free licenses (like "By uploading
files under a free license, the author gives permission for everyone
to use them under certain conditions:"; IANAL)
2. Gives an example of an image credit
Magnus
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