On 8/24/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/24/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
I agree. It doesn't actually have to be in the caption; in a tiny font immediately under the image is fine.
Author asks to be credited with a link. You see the problem yes?
We don't have to accede to that. However, it might be reasonable, for classes of free image requiring credit, to give credit in the actual article use.
If we're uncomfortable with the author name, we should at least put something like 'click to see copyright information' there.
That is a software issue.
Of course it is. However, we're discussing how what we do with images in articles can be improved, many aspects of which are software issues.
I also think we should improve our handling of image metadata in thumbnails. At the very least we should retain copyright information embedded in the original.
How do you tell what in the original is copyright information?
Read up on image metadata formats.
Quite a lot of people use IPTC metadata, which includes fields such as 'Copyright'.
I'm not talking about in-Wikipedia metadata, to be clear - I'm talking about metadata in the image.
-Matt