Mastodawn

MC - G 4h ago

Zaveriat, live in café #deloge, Gent. Meer #fotos vind je terug op de website: https://lusipix.com/.

#concert de Zaveriat dans café #deloge a Gand. Plus des #images, #foto sur: https://lusipix.com/

An #foto of Zaveriat, live at café #deloge, Ghent. More #pictures on: https://lusipix.com/

#fotografie #foto #pictures #photography

Wikipedia Today 14h ago

An image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on a stained-glass window located in a church in St. Peters, Missouri. Today is the feast day of the Immaculate Heart in the Roman Catholic Church.
by: Nheyob

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_Saints…
#image #photography #photo #photos #wikipedia #wiki #potd #picture #pictures #today #featured

Strawbrick 18h ago

Day trip to the #beach #beachlife. Grab the camera to, #fuji #fujifilm #fujifilmx, to take #photography #pictures with a #wideangle. #portrait #portraitphotography pictures of kids making their way to the beach to enjoy the #sea and #sand at #kingsgatebaybeach

Jörg Häfner 1d ago

A new life begins.

#image #photography #photo #photos #potd #picture #pictures #fotos #photografie #foto #phod #people

Jörg Häfner 1d ago

Ferryman on the island of Crete

#image #photography #photo #photos #potd #picture #pictures #fotos #photografie #foto #phod #people

Wikipedia Today 1d ago

A memorial to victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in front the Stonewall Inn in New York City. On June 12, 2016, a terrorist shot and killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, USA.
by: Rhododendrites

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stonewall_…
#image #photography #photo #photos #wikipedia #wiki #potd #picture #pictures #today #featured

Bobbi L. Newman Sep 28, 2009

How to attribute a Creative Commons photo from Flickr

Yes, the absolute correct way! I previously asked how you credit a CC photo from Flickr. Since then I’ve been doing my research and here is the results – The correct way to credit a photo.

You need to follow the guidelines set by the license. I’m only going to address attribution. According to Creative Commons you need to:

keep intact any copyright notices for the Work

credit the author, licensor and/or other parties (such as a wiki or journal) in the manner they specify;

include the title of the Work

the URL for the work if applicable

If you are making a derivative word or adaptation, in addition to the above, you need to identify that your work is a derivative work i.e., “This is a Finnish translation of the [original work] by [author].” or “Screenplay based on [original work] by [author].”

My addition/suggestion

Let the author know. Leave a comment on the image, send them an email, a Flickrmail whatever. Flickr doesn’t provide trackbacks, if you don’t tell them you used it they may never know. People like to know when others are using their works or citing them. Plus, it’s just nice. 🙂

That is a lot to include. So what does a perfect attribution look like? How do you include all that information?

Example 1. If you grab an image from Flickr you can choose the “Blog This” option which will give you the title, the author, and links to both images and user profile. It’s missing the information about the Creative Commons license and a link.

The monkeys are here!

Originally uploaded by Librarian by Day

blog this test

Example 2. You can download the image from Flickr. This one is missing everything, it’s up to you to provide the author, title the work, provide the CC license and links.

Example 3. Lately I’ve been formatting mine like this. The photo links back to the photo on Flickr and the caption indicates is a CC photo and gives the name of the photographer. I also leave a comment on the photo on Flickr thanking them for using a CC license and letting them know I’ve used it in a blog post with a subtle link to the post.

CC Image courtesy of Librarian by Day on Flickr

I’ve also seen bloggers use a footnote to the post saying Photo Credit: Librarian by Day, with “Librarian by Day” linked to the image or profile. What are we all still missing? The title, the Creative Commons License used and links to the CC and author profile

Example 4. You can use imagecodr.org to create it. You put in the URL of the photo it automatically does the rest! The alt text contains the author title and credits Flickr. The image links to Flickr. It adds the CC license image and author adds appropriate links.

by Librarian by Day

My problem with this one is I can’t get both the image and the text to align right in WordPress. WP doesn’t allow linking in captions. The information underneath isn’t technically a caption. Maybe someone with more coding savvy than me can figure it out.

Example 5. A perfect attribution would look like this:

Ok that’s a perfect attribution, it’s a bit more work. Does it need to go directly under the photo? I don’t know.

Good enough?

This may be a case where good enough works. I can’t recall ever seeing a Flickr photo with a perfect attribution and the world isn’t falling apart. I’m just not sure if what I consider good enough is what you consider good enough. There is a big difference between the bare minimum and good enough. To me, my current way, example 2, is good enough. It includes the name, indicates CC license, links to the original image and I leave a comment on the image letting the author know.

Will you use the perfect attribution? If not what is good enough for you?

Read more:

Help keep this site ad free

#attribute #attribution #correct #creativeCommons #Flickr #images #license #photographs #photos #pictures

How do you attribute Creative Commons Flickr photos?

Update 9/28/2009 Please see this post on the correct way to attribute photos, it includes example of an perfect attribution. I get most of the great photos I use in my blog posts from the Creative…

Bobbi L. Newman