{"id":2470,"date":"2019-05-24T23:59:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T04:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:46","slug":"creative-commons-attribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/creative-commons-attribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Commons Attribution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple of days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenM\/status\/1131729348673835009\">JR Dingwall linked to<\/a> a very timely <a href=\"https:\/\/opencontent.org\/blog\/archives\/6060\">post by David Wiley that describes the attribution <em>PLACEMENT<\/em> obligations under a Creative Commons license<\/a>. To be honest, this issue of <strong><em>where<\/em><\/strong> to attribute has always been a fuzzy point for me when you are using excerpts across a multi-page\/sectioned work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m currently working on an online course that borrows heavily from the fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/aem.cast.org\/\">National Center for Accessible Materials website<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC-BY-SA licensed<\/a> work. The tricky part is knowing where to place the acknowledgment within my multi-page\/multi-sectioned derivative work. While I do a link back on each new page (as a way to add context\/cite\/reference the original work), I truly didn&#8217;t know if it was sufficient just to add the full attribution in the reference section to meet the CC-By provisions. According to David&#8217;s interpretation, it is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David&#8217;s post links us to the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/faq\/#can-i-insist-on-the-exact-placement-of-the-attribution-credit\">Creative Commons FAQ for the answer to a question I&#8217;ve always wondered but never dug to find out<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em><strong>Can I insist on the exact placement of the attribution credit?<\/strong><\/em><\/p><p>No.&nbsp;CC licenses allow for flexibility in the way credit is provided depending on the medium, means, and context in which a licensee is redistributing licensed material. For example, providing attribution to the creator when using licensed material in a blog post may be different than doing so in a video remix. This flexibility facilitates compliance by licensees and reduces uncertainty about different types of reuse\u2014minimizing the risk that overly onerous and inflexible attribution requirements are simply disregarded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David&#8217;s post was addressing a slightly different issue (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.openupresources.org\/defending-promise-open-resources\">when the creator has made their license conditional upon their specific attribution provisions<\/a>), this FAQ also gives insight into the flexibility granted to the licensee regarding the way attribution credit is given. Good to know &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, JR Dingwall linked to a very timely post by David Wiley that describes the attribution PLACEMENT obligations under a Creative Commons license. To be honest, this issue of where to attribute has always been a fuzzy point for me when you are using excerpts across a multi-page\/sectioned work. 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