[OGDev] Node images and copyright.

[Kake L Pugh]

On Tue 13 Mar 2007, David Sheldon <dave at earth.li> wrote:
> In fact, I think that the flickr terms and conditions on linking to
> their images means that the image MUST be a link to that photo on
> flickr.  

Well, this shouldn't be Flickr-specific.  What I was thinking was having
four fields:
 - URL of the (small) image that appears on the OpenGuides page.
 - URL of where that image's canonical home is (if it's a photo by me, this
   could be a bigger version of the photo, hosted in my webspace; if it's a
   photo from Flickr, it would need to be the photo's Flickr page).
 - Name of the person who owns the copyright.
 - Link to the licence the photo is distributed under.

In the Flickr case, fields 2 and 4 would contain the same thing - or should
field 4 link directly to the Creative Commons site?  What if the copyright
owner decides to change the terms?  Should we be linking to the licence the
photo was under when we found it, or the licence it's under at the moment
someone views the page?

I'm thinking that four fields is a lot, and so maybe we should do some
auto-hidey javascript stuff so the photo fields only show up when someone
clicks a button to say they want to add photo data (obviously if photo data
already exists for a page it should always show up, I'm talking about when
you view the edit form for a page doesn't already have any).

Kake