Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

cc-licenses - Re: [cc-licenses] Question about BY and SA licenses

cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Development of Creative Commons licenses

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Question about BY and SA licenses
  • Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:48:10 -0500

On Sat, 2007-20-01 at 13:51 -0500, James Grimmelmann wrote:

> >>> and reworked it, would providing the attribution in metadata form be
> >>> good enough to satisfy the requirement of the license?

> And, in response to the original question, note that "Image by XXX"
> alone does not fulfill the attribution requirements, which also require
> providing (or linking to) the CC license, giving the title of the work,
> and if practical, giving the URI that the original creator specified.

...and a note on the changes that were made, if the image is "reworked".
And any copyright notices, if they exist.

Something like this:

Image "Minnesota Sunset" by Augie Q. Author, cropped to show
only the cow, available under the Creative Commons Attribution
2.5 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ ). See
http://augie.example.com/sunset for more information.

~Evan


________________________________________________________________________
Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>
http://evan.prodromou.name/

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page