Copyrighted images intended for download

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

I probably should already know this, but I don't. Many organizations have downloadable image libraries, intended for the press and such to use without prior permission, but that must retain their copyright line. Do we have a license category that covers this, which is quite common in news media use?

Given all the material on Avogadro's Number, I thought it only fitting to have something on Avocados, and the California Avocado Board has such a download caveat.

Is there something equally tasty associated with Loschmidt?

[Milton Beychok]

Howard, that is exactly the same question I asked of Caesar a few days ago ... and yes there is a license for that. See his response to me at here.

I then followed his instructions and they worked quite well.

Milt Beychok

[Caesar Schinas]

It's quite simple if you follow the instructions and answer the questions... 

1 - I am not the copyright holder.
2 - The work is from a source which permits reuse.
3 - Other (not Flickr or Wikimedia)
4 - Copyrighted - but no re-usage restrictions except must attribute to author.

I don't mind trying to simplify it further, but I actually can't think of a way other than possibly merging the last two steps.
Any suggestions as to how you would like to see this simplified?

[Stephen Ewen]

I probably should already know this, but I don't. Many organizations have downloadable image libraries, intended for the press and such to use without prior permission, but that must retain their copyright line. Do we have a license category that covers this, which is quite common in news media use?

See http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Template:Promo-photo

[Milton Beychok]

Stephen: That Promo-Photo license is interesting. But in many cases, when an image is not going to be used to "promote" a subject, then it seems to me that Caesar's "Copyrighted - but no re-usage restrictions except must attribute to author" is more appropriate.

Milt Beychok

[Stephen Ewen]

There's also http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Template:Implied_license

I derived the concept of an "implied license", and that exact term, from the lawyer who wrote this book: http://www.amazon.com/Fair-Use-Free-Permission-Copyrights/dp/1581154321/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246000599&sr=8-1

She discussed it in context of legally advising an author who used photos of baseball players from the team websites in a book about their stats and so forth.

Just another option to consider.