On 29/07/2015 09:01, Petr Kadlec wrote:
Really? Neither the word "instititution" nor "third party [website]" appear
in the text of the CC license, so on what exactly do you base this very
specific distinction just so narrowly fitting our behavior (no image
attribution within articles, only on the image description page reachable
upon clicking on the image), while not fitting anyone else doing exactly
the same? The license requires only that the credit "be implemented in any
reasonable manner". [Also note that the _text_ of our projects, while also
licensed under CC-BY-SA, is licensed in way that explicitly states that a
sufficient attribution is "[t]hrough hyperlink (where possible) or URL to
the page or pages that you are re-using (since each page has a history page
that lists all authors and editors)".]
Many of the images on Commons are from flickr which is CC 2.0 licenses.
Not 2.5, 3.0,
or 4.0 and there is no automatic upgrade from an older to newer version.
The CC 2.0 licenses do not say that a hyperlink is sufficient that is a
v4.0 license. Many
photographers are not making CC content available under 4.0 licenses as
a result. So
you have a problem in that much of your image content is licensed 2.0.
Those running
flickr2Commons upload bots are violating the license by upgrading it to
v3.0 unless they
are creating derivatives. None of the pre 4.0 licenses say that a
hyperelink is sufficient for
attribution. They all say that:
You must keep intact all copyright notices
for the Work and
give the Original Author credit reasonable
to the medium or
means You are utilizing by conveying the
name (or pseudonym
if applicable) of the Original Author if
supplied; the title of the
Work if supplied; to the extent reasonably
practicable, the
Uniform Resource Identifier, if any, that
Licensor specifies to be
associated with the Work, unless such URI
does not refer to the
copyright notice or licensing information
for the Work
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