Image library licensing and copyright discussions

[TomS]

Your publisher will certainly have an opinion, but providing a link to the licence could be done by including the text url. Noting changes could be as simple as adding "image cropped" or "exposure adjusted" to the citation.

I'm thinking a citation might look like this:

"Deutsche Bundesarkiv, via Wikimedia Commons, CC4.0 International licence, Image has been cropped."

Then include a text url for the various appropriate licences up with the copyright info for the overall book.

 

[Tony Williams]

Thank you, that is helpful.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Commons:Credit line - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

For print, you always have to identify user and license so bare minimum is

John Doe / CC-BY-SA-3.0

The name of the licence is searchable for anyone wishing to read the license, so that meets the minimum terms without a URL. As a courtesy you can mention Wikimedia Commons:

John Doe / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0
John Doe / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain

I'd use the exact license name as specified.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

"Deutsche Bundesarkiv, via Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-4.0 licence" looks nice.

Googling CC-BY-4.0 directly leads you to the correct page, so I don't personally think a URL is required. That's just my opinion though, and including some URLs at the start like TomS suggested is fine.

 

[Tony Williams]

Excellent advice - thank you very much!