Image Attribution

Here at the eLearning team, issues to with copyright and licensing are something that we come across often and is something we are interested in.

You may have come across this logo on the website which means all the work we produce for the website is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. This means that anyone is free to:


to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
to make derivative works
to make commercial use of the work

There are many different types of Creative Commons licence that you can use to give people different rights when using your work. Creative Commons is used by a wide range of different users ranging from Google and Wikipedia to FlickR and Nine Inch Nails. The use of Creative Commons within in FlickR is particularly interesting to us as we are currently in the infancy of a project regarding image attribution across the University.

You wouldn't dream of using an article, essay or journal in a piece of work without referencing it, so why is it any different for images? Our Technology of the Month for May is Xpert. A tool designed by Nottingham University and funded by Jisc. It allows a user to attach a band with the attribution to the bottom of an image. Often people don't realise the importance of referencing images particularly when using them in PowerPoint or presentations. We want to challenge this by creating a quick and simple way for staff to effectively attribute their images which displays good practise to students and staff alike.