On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Richard Symonds < richard.symo...@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 -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
