What's the proper way to give image credit?
I know that I can use Flicker, stck xu, or Wiki for images but how do I properly credit them?
I'm using the "Source URL" when adding the image and...
My question is... should the link be to the domain of the site or the actual location of the image such as www.domain.com/image.jpg as an exaple?
It's acceptable to simply link to the main page of the website or the page where the graphic appears. So your URL should be either www.domainname.com or www.domainname.com/pagewithimage.html . By using the specific page URL, anyone viewing your hub can go directly to the page with the image and download it to use at their hub. As a general rule, you never link directly to the image URL (as you have it written) unless you get permission from the webmaster of the site.
by Rhonda Lytle 10 years ago
For some articles, like how to articles or anything with instructions, multiple examples of a flower, animal or what have you, there are tons of pictures. When putting one's own author name in the many source boxes required, it start to look really spammy.Some have theorized this to be a...
by Bill Yovino 13 years ago
I check out many of the new hubs as they come across my Home page. I'm interested to see how many people use their own original work, how many correctly use and credit public domain photos, and how many are outright stealing photos from the Internet.When someone posts a professional looking photo...
by jagandelight 7 years ago
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by Kris Heeter 13 years ago
I've run across several hubs by others that have words running together consistently throughout the hubs. It almost seems too frequent to be standard typos. It almost seems like an artifact of copying/pasting into capsules and perhaps the hubber isn't aware that it's happening. I've...
by Ronald E Franklin 10 years ago
Who owns the copyright to a POW id card image?I'm planning a hub about a man who was held as a POW by the Germans in WW2. When his prison camp was liberated, he went to the office and picked up his ID card, which he shows in his book. My question: does he own the copyright to that card image? I...
by TopUniverse 14 years ago
I tried to get free images from some free photo sites. But they ask me to put source credit to site or to the profile of image owner.I can. But the problem is we can't link to outside domain for more than 2 times from our hub.My question is1. How to solve this problem?2. Where to get free images...
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