Examples of Ideal Attribution

Why

 Image

Elephant@Amboseli by Xiaojun Deng is licensed under CC BY.

• Title “Elephant@Amboseli” is noted.
• Author “Xiaojun Deng” is noted and linked to his profile page.
• Source “Elephant@Amboseli” is linked to original Flickr page.
• License “CC BY” is linked to license deed.

 Course Content

Module 4: Protein Structure ©2013 Open Learning Initiative is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.

• Title “Module 4: Protein Structure” is noted.
• Author “Open Learning Initiative” -linked to the project page.
• Source “Module 4: Protein Structure“-linked to original course content page.
• License “CC BY-NC-SA” is linked to license deed.

*Derivative Work

This work, “Elephant in yellow”, is a derivative of Elephant@Amboseli. by Xiaojun Deng, used under CC BY. “elephant in yellow” is licensed under CC BY by Boyoung Chae.

• Title, Original Author, Source, andLicense are all noted.
• Made it clear that it is a derivative work.
• New author of the derivative work is also noted.

 Offline Document

“Elephant@Amboseli” by Xiaojun Deng is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/>.

• Title, Original Author, Source, andLicense are all noted.
• The licensed type and the URL are spelled out in full.

 Examples of Incorrect Attribution

Why

 Image

Elephant Photo: Creative Commons Licensed.

• Author is not noted. Creative Commons is not the author of this photo.
• There is no link to original photo.
• There is no mention of the license, much less a link to the license. “Creative Commons” is an organization.

 *Derivative work

This work, “Green Banana”, is a derivative of “Banana!” by Graham Reznick used under CC BY-NC-ND. “Green Banana” is licensed under CC BY by Boyoung Chae.

• There is no link to original photo.
• The original photo was released under CC BY-NC-ND, which means that the user is not permitted to distribute the modified material.