Re: Copyright tag?

[Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>]

Bengt Thuree wrote:
> Hi
>
> How should F-Spot implement the Copyright information?
> My small thoughts.
>
> It should preferably be settable during import, unless already set.

Definitely --- in fact, you should be able to set a default copy right 
in the preferences that is used for all imports unless over-ridden.

> It should be possible to display it in the main window (preference option?)

probably --- might also be good to have it as an option in the 
"View->Beneath photo" menu.

> It should be possible to set the Copyright information as a normal tag
> from within F-Spot.

I am not sure that I agree here...   I think tags should be used for 
categorizing photos --- not storing random bits of information about 
them.   I think copyright should be treated similar to the 'comment' 
field (which, confusingly, is called "Description" in the code).  I 
think it should be a new top-level entity

However, I do think it would be useful to be able to interact with 
copyright information in a somewhat similar way to tags --- it would be 
very useful to be able to filter out all photos matching (or not 
matching) a certain copyright string, for instance.

We might even want to store license information --- I see that flickr 
lets you indicate if your photos are creative commons licensed, for 
instance...

Warren