Finding the perfect photo

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Give credit


You've found the perfect photo! Now it's time to give credit, which is called attribution in CC licenses.
Some questions to ask yourself:
  • Where did you find the photo? eg. a website URL
  • Who owns the photo? eg. a Flickr user
  • What terms of use and/or license is the photo under? Are there specific attribution requirements laid out in the terms or license? eg. eg. All CC licenses require that you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the creator. CC licenses also require that if there is a copyright notice on the work (lots of people don't bother with copyright notices anymore, so don't worry if you can't find one) you need to include it in your attribution. You also need to link to the license URL, eg. URL for CC BY license is http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0.
 
There are many ways to give credit. If you are using a CC licensed photo, some best practices for marking content exist at the CC wiki: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking/Users. You can also help improve these best practices at the wiki's Talk page: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Talk:Marking/Users&action=edit&redlink=1
 
Here is an example of good attribution:
 
"My Awesome Photo," © 2009 Greg Grossmeier, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
 
You can also see how photo attribution looks as part of an actual blog post at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33041.

Task Discussion


  • Philipp said:

    I've added attribution information to my edited husky photo. 

    http://1l2p.tumblr.com/post/27907859754/husky

    In general, I think a link back to the original work is usually enough attribution. I'd be interested to know if there have been cases where that was not enough. 

    on July 24, 2012, 10:08 a.m.

    Jane Park said:

    But what if I wanted to reuse the photo directly from your blog post? How would I know what I can or can't do with it if the license isn't specified and linked?

    on July 24, 2012, 10:16 a.m. in reply to Philipp