[okfn-discuss] Annotating Open Images with licence and authorship to prevent copyfraud

Wed Aug 7 16:27:57 UTC 2013

I regularly use openly-licensed images on Flickr and from Wikimedia Commons
as stock photos for my presentations.  As a believer in open data and in
compliance, I wanted to ensure that I handled any required attribution
properly, even if the presentation was altered, so I wanted the attribution
to travel with the image (rather than, say, being on a final slide).  I also
wanted to ensure, on the same basis as this thread started, that anyone
adapting and using my presentations also showed the licensing of the images.

So I have a crude shell/Imagemagick script together with some adapted
Creative Commons symbols images which puts the licence symbols and the
attribution into the image file itself - an example is at http://ow.ly/nItWr

Regards

Andrew

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[mailto:okfn-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust
Sent: 07 August 2013 13:14
To: Gene Shackman; Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list
Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Annotating Open Images with licence and
authorship to prevent copyfraud

My own tools are very crude. Chris Gutteridge used ImageMagick. It depends a
bit on how they are to be deployed - on the desktop or as a service. The
latter can be useful be would require setting up.

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Gene Shackman <eval_gene at yahoo.com> wrote:

Did you mention some tools to use to add in attribution info onto images?
Where can I find those?

Gene

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From: Chris Sakkas <sanglorian at gmail.com>
To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 6:27 AM
Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] [open-science] Annotating Open Images with
licence and authorship to prevent copyfraud

The original, unwatermarked images could also be archived elsewhere. People
who strip the attribution out of thoughtlessness or laziness would not
bother to go into the archive and download the original image. People who
are conscientious enough to source the original image are also likely
conscientious enough to attribute correctly after doing so. 

Chris Sakkas
Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/>  and the
Living Libre blog <http://www.livinglibre.com/>  and Twitter feed
<https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre> .

On 7 August 2013 05:54, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Rafael Pezzi <rafael.pezzi at ufrgs.br> wrote:

Hi, 

I understand the problem, but also don't like watermarks. It will be
annoying to see the same watermark in all pictures and images of a paper, a
book or a website. In my view this would compromise the visual appeal of
open-licensed works.

My primary intention was to stamp scientific (STEM) images - graphs, maps,
photographs of scientific/medical objects etc. Here I believe the clarity of
the science is much more important than visual appeal. Provenance and
attribution are important and usually omitted.

Submission a work that you do not have copyright, i.e. a free licensed work,
although much easier, is as bad as intentionally removing a watermark. 

I'm not proposing that I stamp free licensed work with *my* authorship but
that it should be stamped as free licensed work. Again, my primary target is
science, though I can see the value for cultural works.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069 

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