Upgrade StorageCreative Commons artwork (in CMS A-D References)
How does one handle artwork licensed under a Creative Commons license in a reference list in a document using an author-date format, such as Chicago Author-Date? The difficulty arises because of the need to specify what kind of license is being used, usually to attribute the original creator, and to provide various links.
The CC website gives this example:
So here's how I think this should be done:
I tried using Zotero's Artwork item type, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't come close to handling this kind of complexity. What's an author to do?
The CC website gives this example:
So suppose this came from Flickr. Here's how I think it should be done:
"My Awesome Photo," © 2009 Greg Grossmeier, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
Sometimes things are more complex. For example, the following real URL (I made up the previous one) links to a photo of a 1934 painting (thank you WPA!) by Lily Furedi taken by Chris Tank (ctankcycles) in 2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctankcycles/3685687056/in/set-72157620916011246/.
Grossmeier, Greg. 2009. My Awesome Photo. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. JPEG accessed on 1/24/2013 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124425616@N01/1552312345.
So here's how I think this should be done:
The above examples assume the reference list will appear on a web page, so the URLs are themselves live. However, if they were to appear in print, the links would be dead. So the reference information itself will vary depending on the nature of the output medium.
Furedi, Lily. 1934. Subway. JPEG photograph of original artwork taken by Chris Tank (AKA ctankcycles at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctankcycles/) in 2009 is used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_US. Accessed on 1/24/2013 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctankcycles/3685687056/in/set-72157620916011246/.
I tried using Zotero's Artwork item type, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't come close to handling this kind of complexity. What's an author to do?
We should probably make the rights field available for citations - which it isn't right now - but I wouldn't be inclined to put this into citation styles.
Sometimes an academic document is not a typical paper. Web sites and graphic presentations come to mind. In such cases one typically wants to insert the item (image, etc.) and put an acknowledgement next to it. So this calls for something that's like a citation but not exactly identical to one.
The CMoS (16th ed. 4.98) discusses this and treats such "credit lines" differently than the usual citations. It would be really helpful if Zotero came prepackaged with such "citation" styles that could just be copied and pasted.
https://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/issues/63
let's see what people say