Retrieving image license and author information in wiki commons

Question

I am trying to use the wikimedia API for wiki commons at:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php

It seems like the commons API is very immature

Answer 1

see page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Meta

You can use foreach image the tag 'meta=siteinfo' and the tag 'siprop=rightsinfo' (siprop is the prop of the siteinfo) Then you will see the rightsinfo of the picture.

In your case of Brad Pitt it would be like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=jsonfm&action=query&titles=File:Brad_Pitt_at_Incirlik2.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url&meta=siteinfo&siprop=rightsinfo