Am 31.07.2015 um 19:34 schrieb rupert THURNER:
independent of this case, is there a technical
possibility to put amateur
reusers in future on a safe ground.
The only foolproof licence is CC0, which gives away all rights to the
user and keeps almost nothing for the author himself. But CC0 neither is
a CopyLeft licence that perpetually secures the freedom of this content
(Everybody can take CC0 staff and publish it in a proprietary way wit no
attribution what-so-ever), nor is it a good argument to convince
professional or semi-professional contributors to publish there quality
work under. Hence CC0 is more a problem than a solution.
Beside that, I don't think that it is our prior duty to offer "save
ground" to any kind of reusers. A lot of licence violators honestly
don't give a shit about free content. They just don't care about
copyrights and have no respect to the author, who created the stuff they
are using in the first place. I definitely don't want to support that.
By automatically adding author and license info into
the metadata of
the image. If this is not enough attribution we should strive to have
this kind of attribution accepted in a future version cc license.
An attribution only inside the metadata is not compatible with the
licence's requirements, mainly because it can't be read in every browser
without any add-ons and digital forensic skills.
The CC-licences require the attributions to be "at least as prominent as
the credits for the other contributing author".
Furthermore a lot of CMS remove such metadata automatically while
scaling and recompressing images.
Without the need of education.
Education is the only promising approach to prohibit license and
copyright violations.
We need to teach people, that our content is not "free" as in "free
beer" but "free" as in "freedom" and that freedom comes with
responsibility. Namely the responsibility to give reasonable credit to
the author of the work (you want to use) and reference the license (that
allows you to use it).
It is neither possible nor desirable to take that responsibility from
the users.
// Martin