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Best Practices for Attribution

A good rule of thumb is to recall the acronym T-A-L, which stands for Title, Author, and License.

• Title – What is the name of the material? Provide the title of the work you are adopting. Be sure to hyperlink the title to the original sources. If a hyperlink is not available, describe where you got the work.

• Author – Who owns the material? Name the author or authors of the material in question. Sometimes, the licensor may want you to give credit to some other entity, like a company or pseudonym. In those cases, do as requested. If the author has a webpage, link to it.

• License – How can I use it? Provide the exact name of the Creative Commons license under which the work was released, and hyperlink the license name to the license deed page. You may use the acronyms instead of the full name of the license.

You are obviously using the material for free thanks to the CC license, so make note of it. Don’t just state the material is Creative Commons because that says nothing about how the material can be used. Remember, there are six different CC licenses so always specify the license applied to the material.

Attribution for modified work

Let's say you modified the above image. How would you attribute the image below?

Attribution for Derivative Work

A derivative work is a work based on or derived from one or more already existing works. Common derivative works include translations, musical arrangements, motion picture versions of literary material or plays, art reproductions, abridgments, and condensations of preexisting works. Another common type of derivative work is a “new edition” of a preexisting work in which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work.