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Those guys were only publishing under the CC license to make a profit (by lawyer/court). I think thats wrong to abuse the CC license for profit this way. Anoth

by growt 6y ago

Those guys were only publishing under the CC license to make a profit (by lawyer/court). I think thats wrong to abuse the CC license for profit this way. Another detail of that scheme: Wikipedia actually does not do (correct) attribution on their site (no attribution next to the images. So if you mirror/copy Wikipedia content, in germany you will be sued by "photographers" who won't enforce their attribution on wikipedia but will on your site (to make a profit, see above).

joshuaissac 6y ago
> Wikipedia actually does not do (correct) attribution on their site (no attribution next to the images. More recent versions like CC-BY-SA 4.0[1] explicitly say that it may be reasonable to attribute via a hyperlink. Older licence versions do not have this line, but even then, it could be argued that Wikipedia itself is not infringing because attribution is still provided as part of the same work (considering the whole of the German Wikipedia as the work), rather than on an external site. Unless German courts have already ruled that attribution has to be next to the image? 1. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode#s3a2 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode#s3a...
wizzwizz4 6y ago
If you have JavaScript enabled, attribution is displayed when you view the full-size image. If you don't have JavaScript enabled, it's still displayed when you view the full-size image, but it loads a different page to do so.
- SahAssar 6y ago
  Is it technically legal to show thumbnails without attribution?
kayxspre 6y ago
There's a few times I see the attribution next to the image itself (excluding the featured image, where there's plenty of spaces to do proper attribution). "Order of Parental Glory" [1] is one of the examples. Strangely enough, many of the examples of inline attribution is for images from kremlin.ru, meaning there's probably some kind of agreement that mandates inline credits back in the days, but no longer anymore. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Parental_Glory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Parental_Glory

by growt 6y ago

joshuaissac 6y ago

> Wikipedia actually does not do (correct) attribution on their site (no attribution next to the images. More recent versions like CC-BY-SA 4.0[1] explicitly say that it may be reasonable to attribute via a hyperlink. Older licence versions do not have this line, but even then, it could be argued that Wikipedia itself is not infringing because attribution is still provided as part of the same work (considering the whole of the German Wikipedia as the work), rather than on an external site. Unless German courts have already ruled that attribution has to be next to the image? 1. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode#s3a2 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode#s3a...

wizzwizz4 6y ago

If you have JavaScript enabled, attribution is displayed when you view the full-size image. If you don't have JavaScript enabled, it's still displayed when you view the full-size image, but it loads a different page to do so.

SahAssar 6y ago
Is it technically legal to show thumbnails without attribution?

kayxspre 6y ago

There's a few times I see the attribution next to the image itself (excluding the featured image, where there's plenty of spaces to do proper attribution). "Order of Parental Glory" [1] is one of the examples. Strangely enough, many of the examples of inline attribution is for images from kremlin.ru, meaning there's probably some kind of agreement that mandates inline credits back in the days, but no longer anymore. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Parental_Glory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Parental_Glory