Comments on: Flickr’s Big Fail On Creative Common’s Attribution Guidelines

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:11:05 +0000

Hi Danny, This is true! they explain it bad. Great post, thank you.
I have a question, maybe you can help.
I wanted to know where can i place the credit for the image creator.
I don’t want in near the image, can i place it in the bottom of the webpage? do you know anything about the attribution placement?
Find a lot of question about it, but no clear answer.
Hope you know something about it, Thanks, Ben.

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:10:08 +0000

Can’t advise on that, Isreal. There are some allowances for doing variations of trademarks, if they aren’t being used as trademarks themselves, I know.

By: Israel Kendall

Israel Kendall — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:11:06 +0000

I see this is an old article, but I was searching trying to figure out how to credit someone for an icon I found on an icon database site. Was listed as CC Attribution, but no info on how to give the credit. Only a link to a deviant art profile with no information there either.

This article was a great read and pretty much explains my thoughts right now, but sadly I’m still lost as to how to credit this person.

Also, another question came upon me while sitting here thinking, maybe you could help as you have much more experience than I. If the icon I’m going to use is a variation of a Trademarked icon (ie. Spotify), can someone even claim any sort of copyright over a manifestation of a different companies trademarked logo?

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:51:56 +0000

Very good question, and I have no idea!

By: Kunal

Kunal — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:03:00 +0000

I have a question for you. What happens if I download creative commons images from Flickr and later find out that the flickr user had actually uploaded copyrighted images picked up from the web.

So now who gets the blame ?

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:33:34 +0000

The Creative Commons links from most Flickr photos says:

“If you are publishing on the Internet, it is nice to link the name or title directly to the original work”

Nice, not required. So a hyperlink is NOT required, but the name of the author is. Is that right?

By: Robb Shecter

Robb Shecter — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:59:55 +0000

Yes yes yes!! I’ve gone through these EXACT SAME STEPS and been frustrated every time for the exact same reasons. Thanks for taking the time to spell it out.

The first case you describe (no attribution info spec’d) is by far the most common.

I’m frequently looking for CC photos I can use in the sites I build — it’s a win-win. I get unique works, and the creators get more exposure. It shouldn’t be hard to do the right thing.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:26:54 +0000

Creative Commons says the Attribution license (which is on all CC photos): “You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.”
The usual way to do this is by adding the name of the photographer and a link to where the photo is from. The issue on Flickr is to decide if you use the user’s name or username which aren’t always the same though users sometimes speciy which to use on their profile page and where to linkback.

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:38:09 +0000

It is frustrating in some ways. I thought that linking back from the image to the Flickr page is enough. Even last time I thought if I searched for images that can be used for commercial purposes, you didn’t even need a link back.

So the question remains, is linking back to the photo flickr page enough or you really have to credit the photographer’s name on the posts with links etc?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:17:26 +0000

Interesting article. We have our own way of doing it at Fotopedia through widgets which have the attribution, license and link issues dealt with. I'd be interested to know what you think about it: fotopedia