Hello all. Hope I've put this in the right place (new here!). I have been studying web design for a couple of years, but so far have mainly produced pro bono sites for non-profits. I am currently working on one of my first commercial sites, and was wondering if there is a specific convention I need to observe when it comes to crediting other designers' images which are licensed for commercial use under Creative Commons or GNU? Adding an author credit to the image itself could change the appearance of my design (for the worse), and it is often not possible for very small images like icons. Is it acceptable to credit the image author somewhere in the code, or to add a separate acknowledgements page to a site which uses third-party images? What do others do?

 

Thanks!

If the site is for a commercial organisation then I don't see why your client shouldn't pay for imagery. If you want images for free then the least you can do is include a prominent link to the author, no?

Hello all. Hope I've put this in the right place (new here!). I have been studying web design for a couple of years, but so far have mainly produced pro bono sites for non-profits. I am currently working on one of my first commercial sites, and was wondering if there is a specific convention I need to observe when it comes to crediting other designers' images which are licensed for commercial use under Creative Commons or GNU? Adding an author credit to the image itself could change the appearance of my design (for the worse), and it is often not possible for very small images like icons. Is it acceptable to credit the image author somewhere in the code, or to add a separate acknowledgements page to a site which uses third-party images? What do others do?

 

Thanks!

Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

 

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More info about Creative Commons Licence types.

Edited March 7, 201214 yr by Bomb

Hi, thanks for your feedback. The thing is that I am the client: I'm building a site to try and pull in some paid work, and as I don't currently have any paying clients I'm trying to keep my overheads low by utilising some of the great free resources available for commercial work. Obviously I want to fairly attribute anyone else's work which they have been kind enough to license for commercial use. I was thinking this evening that a tooltip-type box which appears when a user hovers over the image might be the best solution, naming the author as the copyright holder and linking to their site (this could be a problem for icons used for navigation, but none of these are third party at this point in the design).

 

I worked in print design for publishing companies for a long time and most image authors requested an acknowledgements page listing, but I don't know how this works for websites (I don't think I have ever seen an acknowledgements web page, but then again I've never really looked for one). I've seen plenty of sites using what I know to be CC-licensed images without any seeming attribution though, unless this is tucked away in the code somewhere. Anyway, I would be interested to know what anyone else has done in terms of crediting third-party images if they use them.