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Why does the recommendation suggest embedding a URL to a third-party (non-creativecommons.org) site that mentions the image's license, rather than suggesting the inclusion of an explicit license statement? This seems like an unnecessary indirection/dependency; if the URL goes offline for some reason, there's no way to tell how the image is licensed. It also reduces the ability of search engines to detect how a "discovered" image is licensed; with an explicit license statement embedded in the image metadata the search engine can determine the license independently; if the license is only referenced via a URL the search engine has to be able to parse all the possible ways the license could be displayed on the referenced page. | Why does the recommendation suggest embedding a URL to a third-party (non-creativecommons.org) site that mentions the image's license, rather than suggesting the inclusion of an explicit license statement? This seems like an unnecessary indirection/dependency; if the URL goes offline for some reason, there's no way to tell how the image is licensed. It also reduces the ability of search engines to detect how a "discovered" image is licensed; with an explicit license statement embedded in the image metadata the search engine can determine the license independently; if the license is only referenced via a URL the search engine has to be able to parse all the possible ways the license could be displayed on the referenced page. | ||
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| + | Anyone can put a license url in an image. There's no reason to believe it. See [[Nonweb Tagging]]. Lazlo Nibble!? Wow. [[User:Mike Linksvayer|Mike Linksvayer]] 21:37, 16 November 2006 (UTC) | ||
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Why does the recommendation suggest embedding a URL to a third-party (non-creativecommons.org) site that mentions the image's license, rather than suggesting the inclusion of an explicit license statement? This seems like an unnecessary indirection/dependency; if the URL goes offline for some reason, there's no way to tell how the image is licensed. It also reduces the ability of search engines to detect how a "discovered" image is licensed; with an explicit license statement embedded in the image metadata the search engine can determine the license independently; if the license is only referenced via a URL the search engine has to be able to parse all the possible ways the license could be displayed on the referenced page.
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Anyone can put a license url in an image. There's no reason to believe it. See Nonweb Tagging. Lazlo Nibble!? Wow. Mike Linksvayer 21:37, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
