18 Jun
2007
18 Jun
'07
8:25 p.m.
I'd like to use some public domain photos as node images on RGL. I'm
not entirely sure how to do this within the "node image" system - the
OpenGuides templates automatically put the little "(c)" copyright
symbol in front of the name of the person who took the photo. I found
a public domain licence on the Creative Commons site:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
but I don't really understand this sort of thing so I thought I'd ask
for help here. What should I put in the little boxes on the
OpenGuides edit form in this situation?
Kake
P.S. Yes, they are definitely public domain; a friend of mine took them.
18 Jun
18 Jun
8:32 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:25:24PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
I'd like to use some public domain photos as node
images on RGL. I'm
not entirely sure how to do this within the "node image" system - the
OpenGuides templates automatically put the little "(c)" copyright
symbol in front of the name of the person who took the photo. I found
a public domain licence on the Creative Commons site:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
but I don't really understand this sort of thing so I thought I'd ask
for help here. What should I put in the little boxes on the
OpenGuides edit form in this situation?
Something being in the public domain means that, roughly, all rights have
been waived; so it doesn't make any sense to claim that they are
copyrighted. OpenGuides needs be to changed somehow to remove the (c) in
this instance.
That CC "licence" seems to only muddy the waters, as it's not actually a
licence at all. I would avoid us linking to that.
One could use a certain marker in the node_image_url system - if
"publicdomain" is contained in the URL, replace the copyright text with
"image in the public domain" or similar. Without adding another metadata
field (eg image_is_public_domain) I can't see a better way to do it.
Dominic.
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19 Jun
19 Jun
7:37 p.m.
On Mon 18 Jun 2007, Dominic Hargreaves <dom(a)earth.li> wrote:
One could use a certain marker in the node_image_url
system - if
"publicdomain" is contained in the URL, replace the copyright text with
"image in the public domain" or similar.
I don't really like that option.
Without adding another metadata field (eg
image_is_public_domain) I
can't see a better way to do it.
I don't think another metadata field would hurt. It could be a
checkbox rather than a text input, maybe.
To answer Bob: I know I don't _have_ to credit the photographer for a
public domain image, but I _want_ to.
(We're probably going to avoid the issue for now, though, by me making
some trivial modification to the photos and releasing them as Creative
Commons - a solution suggested by the photographer himself.)
Kake
18 Jun
18 Jun
8:52 p.m.
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Kake L Pugh wrote:
but I don't really understand this sort of thing
so I thought I'd ask
for help here. What should I put in the little boxes on the
OpenGuides edit form in this situation?
nothing. theres no need to.
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