On 12/21/06, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
I noticed that some people add credits of photos inside the articles, saying that CC-BY requires attribution.
Shouldn't photo credits be allowed *only* in the image description page?
I don't see why images would have a special status when compared to text contributions, the credits for which are found also a click away, in the edit history.
Images shouldn't have a special status. The attribution of the authors should be part of the article too. That's what the GFDL requires, not that the attribution be "a click away".
One difference with images is that many images are copyrighted by non-Wikipedians. This is true with some text, but much less so. So with text you can argue that the submitter gave an implicit license. Not true with images which are copyrighted by someone different from the submitter.
Anthony