Author photograph upload should ask for licence

[Edward Betts]

When uploading a photograph we should ask the user what licence to use for the photograph. We could let the user pick from a list, maybe using the same list as Wikipedia, or a shorter one.

This is the list currently used by Wikipedia:

[Your own work (best practices)]
  Own work, copyleft, attribution required (Multi-license GFDL, CC-BY-SA all versions)
  Own work, all rights released (Public domain)
  Own work, copyleft, attribution required (GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0)
  Own work, copyleft, attribution required (GFDL, Free Art License)
  Own work, attribution required (GFDL, CC-BY 3.0)
  Own work, copyleft, attribution required (GFDL)
[Not self-made, but has been released under:]
  [GNU Licenses:]
    GNU Free Documentation License
    GFDL content with disclaimers from English Wikipedia
    GFDL content with disclaimers from Italian Wikipedia
    GFDL content with disclaimers from Japanese Wikipedia
  Creative Commons licenses:
    Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
    Attribution 3.0
  [Flickr photos:]
    Image from Flickr and I do not know the license
    Uploaded to Flickr under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0
    Uploaded to Flickr under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
[Public domain / not copyrighted / free use:]
  I found the image on Google or a random website
  Author died more than 70 years ago - public domain
  Reproduction of a painting that is in the public domain because of its age
  First published in the United States before 1923 - public domain
  Original work of the US Federal Government - public domain
  Original work of NASA - public domain
  I don't know what the license is

[rejon (rejon)]

Could have a list of preferred licenses to enforce clarity, then a space
for other or optional. I would advocate for main 6 cc licenses, CC PD
declaration, and GFDL license. There should be ability to add 1 or more
of them.

Also, how can we get content licenses into the book records? possibly
another thread ;) I simply want to be able to track 1 or more content
licenses (url preferred to license, as with cc) for a book.

Jon

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 09:53 +0000, Edward Betts wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> When uploading a photograph we should ask the user what licence to use
> for the photograph. We could let the user pick from a list, maybe using
> the same list as Wikipedia, or a shorter one.
>
> This is the list currently used by Wikipedia:
>
> [Your own work (best practices)]
> Own work, copyleft, attribution required (Multi-license GFDL, CC-BY-SA all versions)
> Own work, all rights released (Public domain)
> Own work, copyleft, attribution required (GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0)
> Own work, copyleft, attribution required (GFDL, Free Art License)
> Own work, attribution required (GFDL, CC-BY 3.0)
> Own work, copyleft, attribution required (GFDL)
> [Not self-made, but has been released under:]
> [GNU Licenses:]
> GNU Free Documentation License
> GFDL content with disclaimers from English Wikipedia
> GFDL content with disclaimers from Italian Wikipedia
> GFDL content with disclaimers from Japanese Wikipedia
> Creative Commons licenses:
> Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
> Attribution 3.0
> [Flickr photos:]
> Image from Flickr and I do not know the license
> Uploaded to Flickr under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0
> Uploaded to Flickr under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
> [Public domain / not copyrighted / free use:]
> I found the image on Google or a random website
> Author died more than 70 years ago - public domain
> Reproduction of a painting that is in the public domain because of its age
> First published in the United States before 1923 - public domain
> Original work of the US Federal Government - public domain
> Original work of NASA - public domain
> I don't know what the license is
>
> ** Affects: openlibrary
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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[webchick (webchick)]

I have a bunch of author photographs for the great books collection that I will be uploading soon with the help of a volunteer - we have included the URL in the image since we did not have a means to support attribution. It would be nice if we can build in support for licenses as well, but at the very least - we have a link to the source.

[rejon (rejon)]

Greg, you have a patch for cc license functionality right? Can you attach?

Jon

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Edward Betts <email address hidden> wrote:
> ** Changed in: openlibrary
>   Importance: Undecided => Medium
>       Target: None => 1.7
>
> --
> Author photograph upload should ask for licence
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280666
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of
> Openlibrary-team, which is the registrant for Open Library.
>

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[Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)]

My "patch" was to the view and edit templates for an edition on pdregistry.

I added this line on the view template (to go below the ISBN):
$if page.licenses: $:thingrepr(page[licenses])<br /><br />

And this line to the edit template (on the right hand side, under Genre):
$:macros.EditionEditRow(page, "licenses", unique=False, right=True)

But, there is still some formating of the url that needs to be processed (by infogami? by the template?) so it displays nicely; not just a plain text url. I couldn't even manually pass through <a href tags to make it a link.

Thoughts from the OL team?

[Edward Betts (edwardbetts)]

Can we include this in upstream?

[Anand Chitipothu (anandology)]

On 26-Jan-10, at 4:40 AM, Edward Betts wrote:

> Can we include this in upstream?

It is just a matter of building the UI.

[George (george-archive)]

Edward's proposed list is pretty complex. We should be able to make it simpler.

This is a good feature to add, but now isn't the time to load Upstream with new features. Let's stay focussed on the plan, but intend to add this soon.

[Edward Betts (edwardbetts)]

Sure, my list was over the top, we can pick a simpler set. I would encourage authors to use CC-0 or CC BY-SA 3.0 to match Wikipedia.