[OSM-talk] Copyright and attribution on screenshots

Pete Masters pedrito1414 at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 4 11:55:23 UTC 2022


Good advice, thanks Phil and Amanda.

Amanda, fair point. We included the caption anyway as we felt this was prob
true (especially on a mobile device).

Pete

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:50 AM Amanda McCann <amanda at technomancy.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 10:47 +01:00, Pete Masters via talk <
> talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> > We have a new post up on the HOT blog [2
> > <
> https://www.hotosm.org/updates/mapping-the-care-of-people-with-urbelatam/>],
>
> > which includes a screenshot. If the *'©OpenStreetMap contributors'* is
> > clearly visible on the screenshot, does it need to be in the caption
> > also or is it fine as is?
>
> You mean the image at
> https://www.hotosm.org/updates/mapping-the-care-of-people-with-urbelatam/#mapping-impact
> ? (my screenshot attached) The attribution text in the image is about 6
> pixels tall and not very readable to me. Initially I thought you didn't
> have any attribution at all…
>
> --
> Amanda
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