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HTML/CSS standard for specifying copyright attribution on an image

Is there a standard or common convention for including an attribution to the copyright owner on an image in HTML? 

(See the blog post for an explanantion of why rel=license is not the solution I am looking for)

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There is a whole section about License Meta Data in the Creative Commons website.

To get you started:

Hope this helps.

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Niv, 

Thanks for the pointers. 

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Embedded_Metadata deals with embedding the licensing info directly in the resource file. It does not deal with semantically expressing this relationship in HTML. 

Meaning, given a resource file that does not include embedded copyright info, and a licensing entity that requires you to add a copyright acknowledgement next to the image, there is no way (that I know of) to mark the relationship between the copyright message and the licensed resource semantically. 

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Developer leads to http://wiki.creativecommons.org/HTML which provides an example for specifying that a specific resource (MP3 in this case) is licensed and how:

However, the example (a screenshot) is linked to a resource that does not actually contain this example. 

So, still no solution. 

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All in all it looks fine. I have 2 comments:

  1. I think IDREF/IDREFS refer to IDs so the IMG tag in your example needs to have an "ID" attribute and you cannot refer the name as an ID in the IDREF attribute of the attribution link.
  2. Since the attribution text is surrounded by a link, styling wise, if there is no actual link to the copyright source it might still look as a link and will require additional styling to make it look a bit better (make the link less obvious, this is not the most important link on the page, etc).

 

 

One must do what one must do

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