As I redesign my site, I’m trying to figure out the best way to comply with Shutterstock’s photo credit policy. I asked, and they said that it doesn’t have to be “right next” to the image, it could be at the end of the page, so I modified the CSS and ended up with this:
I noticed that in Newspaper 4 the gallery incorporates a nice way to attribute copyright on the images, but I’m not really going to use the gallery.
Is there a better way to credit the images in Newspaper that I’m simply missing? I’m going through about 300 posts and 300 new images, so I want to make sure I’ve looked at everything before I commit to a certain way. Thanks!
Hi,
You could try to add additional fields to the media, here you can read a tutorial on how you can do that – http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-additional-fields-to-the-wordpress-media-uploader/
Thank you, Emil G.
Hi Emil,
a follow up on this: I tried to do this but this is not working for thumbnails which are generated from the theme automatically. Do you have an further idea what to do for thumbnail sizes? The credit here is very important because of the media laws in my country. I think like for the most of the people using it for serious projects.
thanks in advance!
I used the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to add a repeating photographer meta field to my posts, saved credits for all the post’s images in said field, and edited Newspaper’s single templates to display the credit with an icon. For example:
http://mediumutm.ca/news/pink-hijabs-raise-awareness-of-breast-cancer
But this is very similar to what tcdraper did in the first place :p And it’s not the best for posts with photos from multiple different sources, which happens to be a rare case for us.
We took the easy route and just put the credit at bottom of the article/post.
<small><em>Photo Credit: Featured image (top of article) courtesy of XXXX, and photo by and © Joe Smith - all reproduction rights reserved; used under license.</em></small>I just ended up using the caption field to credit the image author. I think it clutters up the layout of everything a little bit, but since I’m using photos from both iStockPhoto (which requires attribution next to the image) and Shutterstock (which only requires attribution in the article), I figured it was easiest to just go with a uniform way of doing it.
Some articles, like this one:
http://www.oralanswers.com/sinus-infection-tooth/
I decided to keep the attribution at the bottom since the caption would interrupt the flow of the article. However, all my featured images use the caption field to credit the author.
@sergenial – I’m pretty sure most stock photo licenses only require attribution for editorial uses. Use in a blog post is normally considered editorial use. As I understand it, use of the thumbnails on the front page would not be considered editorial use, as their purpose is to promote the article.
I hope that helps!
Thank you all for the answers! I’ll take the easy route and do it like Christopher.
Haha, that works. (Since we’re a student newspaper and have a lot of volunteer photographers, I made the ACF fields be user selectors — it makes for a very easy query of the posts each user has contributed photos to. But if you don’t need that functionality, Chris’s easy route is probably the smallest headache.) 🙂
Yeah, I ended up doing it that way since I was manually putting in a copyright notice for the author’s work (e.g., for a fiction piece, or book serial), as well as link to the author’s page to “read more by this author” …); and sometimes link back to “read chapter one” … just made it the simplest solution vs “wrangling” custom stuff.
Advanced Custom Fields is cool way to do it too, but I’m already doing too many hacks per theme update, and skipping every couple of theme updates (waiting on 4.3.1 now!), so one more thing to drop into templates was a bit much, so the manual way kind of worked since I can put the dates on the copyright more easily than trying to do query, and doesn’t add yet another data field to dbase, etc.
I think in an environment where you have multiple authors posting their own stuff, a custom field is great because you could make it “required” so that it’s always there, and remind people it needs to there, etc.
Yeah, I’m finally realizing the pain of too many hacks, even in a child theme… If I replace enough of the files and functions in a child theme so it can survive updates, the effectiveness of an update is diminished anyway :p
