<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/1/21, Martin Laberge <<a href="mailto:mlsoft@videotron.ca">mlsoft@videotron.ca</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On January 21, 2008 12:52:19 elle stone wrote:<br>><br>> Under digikam's "Settings, Configure, Identity" is found "Photographer<br>> Information": Author, Author Title; "Credit and Copyright": Credit, Source,
<br>> Copyright. I checked around the internet to see what these various fields<br>> are supposed to mean, be, do . . . and thought I would share. Please<br>> correct my mistakes, as I don't want to lead anyone astray. And if this is
<br>> the wrong place to share such garnered information, please tell me and I<br>> apologize in advance!<br>><br>> 1. The "Copyright" field"<br>> 1a. An example of how to fill in the "Copyright" field is found here:
<br>> <a href="http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_naa.html">http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_naa.html</a><br>> © Juanita Doe/Parador Times, all rights reserved<br>><br>
> 1b. That pesky little copyright symbol. I can't find any way to get the<br>> copyright symbol into digikam's "Configure -digikam, Identity: Default IPTC<br>> identity information", Credit and Copyright, Copyright" field. According to
<br>> here: <a href="http://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/symbol/">http://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/symbol/</a> substitutes for the symbol,<br>> like (c), or abbreviations, are not "legal" substitutes. But you don't need
<br>> the symbol, as the word "copyright" serves just as well.<br>><br>> 1c. "All rights reserved". According to here:<br>> <a href="http://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/allrightsreserved/">
http://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/allrightsreserved/</a> this phrase has not<br>> much legal meaning. However, everyone else, including the "IPTC Core Schema<br>> for XMP" (see<br>> <a href="http://www.iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/documentation/Iptc4xmpCore_1.0-doc-CpanelsUserGuide_13.pdf">
www.iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/documentation/Iptc4xmpCore_1.0-doc-CpanelsUserGuide_13.pdf</a>)<br>> tells you to include the phrase "all rights reserved" if you intend to<br>> protect your copyright.<br>
><br>> 1d. Why bother with the "Copyright" field at all? The short answer is it<br>> seems to be the way to avoid having one's work "orphaned." See<br>> <a href="http://imagemetadata.com/">
http://imagemetadata.com/</a> for helpful links about the controversy. (One<br>> also needs to include contact information as part of the image metadata, to<br>> avoid the "orphan" problem.) And the copyright field also seems to be the
<br>> appropriate place to release a photograph to the creative commons, with a<br>> specification of the "rights granted", as the copyright laws presume rights<br>> are reserved unless specifically granted. Or so it seems to me. I am not a
<br>> lawyer.<br>><br>> 2. "Author", "Credit", and "Source" sound an awful lot alike, but they are<br>> conceptually different, though in fact often the same person/entity.<br>> Information and quotes in 2a, 2b, 2c below are from:
<br>> <a href="http://www.iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/documentation/Iptc4xmpCore_1.0-doc-CpanelsUserGuide_13.pdf">http://www.iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/documentation/Iptc4xmpCore_1.0-doc-CpanelsUserGuide_13.pdf</a>
.<br>><br>> 2a. "Creator" and "Author" are "shared fields", meaning whatever is entered<br>> into the one appears in the other, in the upcoming/developing (Adobe-led)<br>> XMP standards. Likewise "Author Title" and "Creator's Job Title" are shared
<br>> (these "shared fields" are a "backwards compatibility" thing as XMP evolves<br>> to include more than IPTC and EXIF). So if you work for an organization,<br>> your job title goes here. If you work for yourself or take pictures as a
<br>> passion rather than as a profession, I suppose "Photographer" or "Starving<br>> Artist" might go here.<br>><br>> 2b."Credit" is the same as "Provider". "Use the Provider field to identify
<br>> who is providing the photograph. This doesn't have to necessarily be the<br>> owner/ creator. If a photographer is working for a news agency such as<br>> Reuters or the Associated Press, these organizations could be listed here as
<br>> they are "providing" the image for use by others. If the image is a stock<br>> photograph, then the group (agency) involved in supplying the image should<br>> be listed here. Note: This field is "shared" with the "Credit" field in the
<br>> Origin panel of the Adobe Photoshop File Info field."<br>><br>> 2c."Source". "The Source field should be used to identify the original<br>> owner or copyright holder of the photograph. The value of this field should
<br>> never be changed after the information is entered following the image's<br>> creation. While not yet enforced by the custom panels, you should consider<br>> this to be a "write-once" field. The source could be an individual, an
<br>> agency, or a member of an agency. . . . Source may also be different<br>> from Creator and from the names listed in the Copyright Notice. Note: This<br>> field is "shared" with the "Source" field in the Origin panel of the Adobe
<br>> Photoshop File Info field."<br>><br><br>Thanks for the information, this is very well phrased,<br>and it helps me very much in the understanding of these fields.<br><br>I am sure many others too.<br><br>I would suggest that this whole explanation be included somewhere
<br>in the digikam documentation, if it were possible.<br><br>Using this as a reference, we could have some yellow-popups<br>over these fields to describe them.<br><br>What do you think, Gilles ??</blockquote><div><br>Totally agree with you. Pop-up help is a fine way to guide user.
<br><br>It's a non developper task. A patch is easy to do. If you is interested, code to fix is here :<br><br><a href="http://websvn.kde.org/branches/extragear/kde3/graphics/digikam/utilities/setup/setupidentity.cpp?revision=720668&view=markup">
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/extragear/kde3/graphics/digikam/utilities/setup/setupidentity.cpp?revision=720668&view=markup</a><br><br>...look all QWhatsThis::add(...) call in constructor...<br><br>Best<br><br>Gilles
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br>Martin Laberge, 30 years of unix admin... and still learning!<br><a href="mailto:mlsoft@videotron.ca">
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