Media Library: add fields for media information to describe license info

[TomasM]

Media Library: add fields for media information to describe license info.

These days CC license becomes very popular and sometimes it's difficult to find place were you could Attribute author. In case it would be possible to have this meta data inside WP, you could simply link image or small text (like: CC License) to image page where all this info would be displayed automatically next to media file, plus, link to Creative Commons license page (according license type) could be automatically added too.

It would be very convenient to have fields to Attribute author of the media.

It would be very nice to have fields for media info describing:

License type: (for example: Creative Commons - Attribution)

Author Name:

Author URL:

Thank you!

There are already tickets out there for "add metadata to media", but this is an excellent example of why it is needed.

I would think the metadata framework should be added per other similar tickets, and then this particular usage could be implemented via plugin for those who need it.

This sounds like plugin territory to me. Core should focus on basic management functions for uploading or linking to files, with hooks for plugins to extend the media functionality as needed for various use cases.

Moving to 3.1 for now where media is likely to get an overhaul. But I'm pretty sure there's already an API (not very well documented) in place to add fields to save media information in postmeta.

I think this belongs in a plugin, not core. We want to make the core media features more basic, and then have a really great media core plugin, so I'm closing at wontfix. When the media core plugin development starts, this could be suggested there.

I agree it should not be in core. I was just concerned we didn't have the hooks to be able to do this.

Going to re-close as worksforme. We can re-open if new hooks are needed. I imagine this is something we'll keep in mind in 3.1 without needing this ticket as a reminder.

As part of a core plugin it wouldn't be tied to a core WP release cycle, but would have it's own versioning.

Ah, I didn't see "core plugin". Yeah, AFAIK this is already doable via a plugin anyway. Again, I was only concerned about hooks being available for plugins (canonical/core or not) to be able to do this.