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Image Footnotes
I brought my son to a kids event at MIT on Sunday. I talked with a grad student from BCS who I've met a couple of times. We got to talking shop, and I told him about Stellar Images. As all teaching staff ask, he wanted to know if we'll supply copyright information. In particular, he want to know how he could keep track of which of the pictures in his personal collection could be re-used. I didn't know how to do that once the picture was downloaded. He said he wished is said in little letters on the bottom of the image.
I think that's a great idea. I saw professors with collections of images on their hard drives, images they could never in use OCW without knowing their source. I added a note to each full-size image in the mockup (example) in a 15 pixel strip on the bottom. I included info about how the image may be used, along with a sample attribution. I didn't include the actual license info, because I hear instructors saying they don't want legalese. The stripe is almost black (not full black which could distract from the image). I used Jason Kottke's Silkscreen font to make type that was readable at a very small size.
Not sure if we'll be able to manipulate the images on the fly like this in the Fall proof-of-concept, but I hope this will wind up in the final product.