Hi, a 'quick' Friday question ...
If you are planning to use images under a license that requires
attribution, but the mechanism for attribution is not specified, which
of the following would people deem acceptable?
- display an image on a web page and having a full citation and link
(ok, I think that's an obvious yes)
- display an image on a website with attribution in a hidden
"title=xyz" attribute
- give generic credits for images at the end of a page, or even on a
separate page
- overlay an image with a text 'watermark' attribution (but does that
create a derivative, which gets even more confusing!)
- embed all attribution details in image metadata
One of the reasons for asking is that most of the licenses I have seen
seem to be focused around web usage, but what about mobile apps,
in-gallery interactives etc?
I appreciate that licences vary and some will specify exact
requirements, but I ask the question in a generic way, and perhaps
also thinking in the spirit of the law, rather than just the letter.
Thanks, James
PS taking the most obvious example of Creative Commons, it seems that
they have in part addressed this with 4.0 which says "In 4.0, the
manner of attribution is explicitly allowed to be reasonable to the
means, medium, and context of how one shares a work." (source:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_Versions#Attribution_reasonable_to_means.2C_medium.2C_and_context
with further detail, though no real explanation, at
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_Versions#Detailed_attribution_comparison_chart).
But if you wanted to use a CC-BY 2.0 licensed image you'd be
restricted to the very first option, and should follow the guidelines
at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution
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