[Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

[Michael Jahn]

Hi,

great question, Richard! Seconding Matthew's comment on WMF blog policy: At
Wikimedia Deutschland we adopted the bottom notes for posts with multiple
images[1]. As a general rule, we include attribution in the bylines[2].

Adding yet another aspect to sufficient CC licensing, let's not forget that
CC deeds actually recommend linking to deeds[3], as exemplified here[4].

I particularly like Thomas' notion of not differentiating between
attribution requirements for text and images. From my personal
understanding of CC license terms, I agree. There is no difference, which
indeed leads to the question:

"How to deal with authorship attribution of dozens of authors (to pick a
rather simple example) under CC-BY-SA in any convincing manner?" That is,
"convincing" as in "intuitive and practical use cases".

I sense that this is, first of all, an issue for Creative Commons licensing
politics.

Best,
Michael


[1] see e. g.
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/01/17/die-gesichter-hinter-den-zahlen-ein-ruckblick-auf-die-spendenkampagne-2012-2/
[2] see e. g.
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/01/21/die-server-der-wikimedia-foundation-ziehen-um/
[3] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
[4] please follow the asterisc here
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/20/zahlen-und-bilder-die-wikimania-2012-in-washington-d-c/

2013/1/22 Matthew Roth <mroth at wikimedia.org>

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Richard Symonds <
> richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I have a question for you which I am sure you will enjoy discussing. It's
> > about licencing.
> >
> > Wikimedia sites do not use a 'byline' on their images - for example,
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page requires an image to be
> > clicked
> > on before you can view the licence and the author information. The same
> > applies for Wikipedia, and the WMF (and WMUK) blogs.
> >
>
> Hi Richard,
> On the Wikimedia blog, we include "Copyright notes" at the bottom of each
> post with images and include the Title of the photo, the author's name (and
> link to userpage if available) and the link to the relevant license page on
> CC or elsewhere. See for example:
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/19/wikimedia-sites-move-to-primary-data-center-in-ashburn-virginia/
>
> This process was formalized after a Commons user pointed out to us that we
> appeared not to be in compliance with the URI sub-clause of the CC-BY-SA
> license. cf sections 4 a) and 4 b) here:
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
>
> Our legal team affirmed the Commons user's assertion and we have
> subsequently implemented the Copyright notes special field in the admin end
> or our blog. You can see a bit more info here on the instructions we give
> to post authors and editors:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines#Add_Copyright_Notes
>
> thanks,
> Matthew
>
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>
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