Licensing statements in footers?

So I helping some folks with some books in PB. The footer of the main book page looks like

< book title, as link > Copyright © by < rightsholder > is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

That’s fine.

The issue is that some of the PB chapters have authors specified. The author’s name appears right under the chapter title (which is, I assume, something controlled by the theme … anyway, it’s what we want).
But those chapter pages have a footer which includes

< book title, as link > Copyright © by < chapter author’s name > is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Which is not good!
What we want is simply the same licensing statement in the chapter footers as in the main book landing page’s footer. And the chapter author’s name under the chapter title, as is happening.

Does anyone know how I can do this? Thanks!

Thanks @poritzj – I think what you’re seeing is a bug that sounds a lot like this issue: If a chapter author is entered, but not a chapter license override, author is attributed with entire book title on chapter page · Issue #2065 · pressbooks/pressbooks · GitHub. I believe our development team will look into further in their bug scrub this week. Thanks for bringing it back to our attention!

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@poritzj and @beckej our tech team discussed this issue today. Thomas has posed a question about a proposed solution that they’d love feedback on: If a chapter author is entered, but not a chapter license override, author is attributed with entire book title on chapter page · Issue #2065 · pressbooks/pressbooks · GitHub. If either of you are comfortable weighing in, or gathering input from people you’ve worked with that are interested in resolving this bug, please let us know your thoughts!

@SteelWagstaff Thanks for pinging me there.

I responded on Github.

I think there is a little Creative Commons Nuance that we should be careful of with a collection vs a single work, and the implication of whether chapter authors have retained copyright of their contributions vs whether their contributions were signed over to the book and released all at once, so I’m eager for other Creative Commons folks to weigh in with their expertise.

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Yeah, I think there are some nuances here … which, interestingly, are much better represented in the metadata collected for the entire book than they are for individual chapters.
In particular, the book allows for the specification not only of the author(s) and license, but also of the rightsholder, and of an additional “copyright notice” which replaces the main one if the license is ARR (c) and follows the auto-generated one if a CC license is specified. This, presumably, is to allow situations such as when a book is an adaptation of a previous CC-licensed book, in which case one often makes kind of a smashed-together licensing statement for the new book and attribution statement for the antecedent work. The Book Info metadata does not allow for that exactly, since it auto-generates the CC licensing statement, but the Book Info’s “Copyright notice”, immediately following, could have that attribution statement to the prior work.
So, then, it seems to me that individual chapters really ought to have all the same range of desired possibilities as the whole book: separate author/rightsholder and possible “copyright notice” so one can add attribution to a prior work of which this chapter is an adaptation.
In any case, if none of those things is specified for the chapter, I would be fine with a chapter footer licensing statement repeating exactly the overall book landing page’s footer licensing statement, while if any of chapter author, chapter rightsholder, chapter license, or chapter copyright notice is specified, I would prefer that the base footer license point to the chapter, not the whole book.
Or, rather, I would really prefer for it to mention both. That is, I’d like if any of those chapter-level metadata fields were specified, for the chapter footer licensing statement to read

< chapter title; linked to the chapter’s specific URL > from < book title; linked to the entire book’s landing page > by < author >, © < rightsholder > is released under < name of license chosen; linked to the creativecommons.org full license text >

What do y’all think of that?

(Note IAmNotALawyer, nor am I a CC employee, although I do frequently facilitate the CC Certificate course for them.)