Credits and copyright info for images

Credits and copyright info for images

zaratustra 13 Feb 2012 02:48

A discussion on the IRC channel raised this point - we kind of forgot to keep track of the sources for the SCP images and relevant copyright information. Would it be of interest to do so, either as its own page or as extra data in the image template?

Re: Credits and copyright info for images

Photosynthetic 13 Feb 2012 03:11

I'd love to see this happen, at least for new SCP entries, but I fear it'd be rather labor-intensive to track down all the old ones.

Re: Credits and copyright info for images

pooryoric 13 Feb 2012 04:40

Feel free to credit the image creators in the discussion page, but keep it off the article page proper, please; it breaks suspension of disbelief rather badly.

Wiki policy on image copyrights is to remove or alter images at their original creator's request. If an image's owner complains to us about not being credited, we happily work with them to replace the image.

Re: Credits and copyright info for images

(account deleted) 13 Feb 2012 05:11

I fell asleep in the design class that covered this but I'm sure it falls under fair use. We don't hurt their market, we only use one picture, we don't claim the rights, and we're not commercializing, at least not that I know of.

Re: Credits and copyright info for images

SophosBlitz 13 Feb 2012 06:47

As long as we're not making money (not just profits) from the site, we're fine under fair use. We also respect the creators' rights and take them down if/when requested (e.g. old Cassie).

Now that you mention it though, if something requires attribution (e.g. CC), we should be attributing it given how much we care about our own CC license. I have no idea how this could be monitored/policed in an efficient manner. Oh well.

Re: Credits and copyright info for images

Cryokina 13 Feb 2012 08:38

If we need to find the origin of an image, we can always put it into TinEye: http://www.tineye.com/
It's worked for me eight times out of ten when searching for where an image came from.

Re: Credits and copyright info for images

judgedeadd 13 Feb 2012 08:55

Google Reverse Image Search works even more often than TinEye.

Re: Credits and copyright info for images

Cryokina 13 Feb 2012 09:04

Huh. Apparently I'm a bit behind on the times. Didn't know that existed.