[cc-licenses] Question about BY and SA licenses

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Sat Jan 20 12:59:33 EST 2007


On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 02:35 -0800, Jonathon wrote:
> OSS wrote:
> > and reworked it, would providing the attribution in metadata form be
> > good enough to satisfy the requirement of the license? In other words,
> 
> I'd suggest including the attribution in the metadata, and also as a
> caption.  Not everybody knows that images can contain metadata, much
> less has the ability to view it.
> 
> On a personal level, I'd love it when the images I use contain the
> attribution & license in the metadata.  It makes it much easier to keep
> track of what license went with which image, and who took which iamge.

I encourage use of embedded metadata, just suspect that alone it does
not fulfill attribution requirements.

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