intellectual-property attribution
Picture credits -&gt; must the page of inclusion be named?
<p>we're currently developing a website. For this we use pictures for which we need to place an attribution on the legal notice page.</p>

<p>Now we're wondering if it's enough to place the following information there:</p>

<ul>
<li>file name</li>
<li>path</li>
<li>image content (i.e. the visual image itself)</li>
<li>the copyright (maybe including link)</li>
</ul>

<p>Is this enough or do we need to include also the urls of the sub pages where we place the image?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

<p>Bye The_Unknown</p>

<p>Just giving a credit does not absolve you of the copyright regulations. The person who owns the copyright on the images would need to allow you to use them.</p>

<p>It depends on the source of your "permission". If for example the permission is via a public license which say "must attribute" without being more specific, then the question is whether your efforts to comply with that requirement are "reasonable". Observation of typical attribution statements will tell you what is reasonable (because it is assumed that most people are reasonable). If it is customary that attribution statements include information such as "URL1 of ours comes from SOURCE1; URL2 of ours comes from SOURCE2...", then that would inform you of one reasonable outcome. Alternatively, if it is customary that items simply be acknowledged somewhere, e.g. "We thank SOURCE1, SOURCE2... for permission to reproduce their stuff", then it is reasonable to limit the attribution to that. Mainly: whatever the license says; secondarily, whatever is "reasonable" in case a specific detail is not stated in the license.</p>
