A few questions...

[Chris Dichtel]

Hi,

 

Recently installed your Open Attribute Addon for the Firefox browser, and although I do see the little cc icon in the address window while visiting your site; when I visit another site which uses the Creative Commons license, it doesn't show.

 

More particularly, this is a site for which I executed a full portfolio of editorial illustrations over several years.  Recently (using the astoundingly deft tool TinEye) I have discovered that very many of my original illustrations were being lifted and reused to illustrate blogs, commercial sites, ads, etc.

 

I have been sending polite requests to these sites for attribution (and most have been complying), but several questions arise.

• I love the idea of making this an easy, one-click effort (OpenAttribute); but can you tell me what needs to be done to make the site for which I created these images (www.siliconvalleywatcher.com ) function properly with this addon? The owner is a friend, and would be more than happy to correct it, were I able to show him how.
• Although the web site itself is licensed under Creative Commons ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ ), giving attribution to the site itself does nothing to give credit to me, the illustrator. Is there some separate or additional way to accomplish this for individual graphic images created for the site, such that a re-user could employ the OpenAtt addon to give me credit for a used graphic?

Appreciate any guidance / ideas you can toss at me.

 

Thanks for your work!

 

Chris Dichtel

[Pat Lockley]

Hi Chris,

The creative commons website has a tool that allows you to add the HTML to a site to allow the license to display.

I can't do a link as I'm on my mobile.

You can add a license to part of a page as well - the tool supports multiple licences per page.

Pat

[Nathan Yergler]

You can generate the HTML with the appropriate attributes at
http://creativecommons.org/choose. I looked at the site in question
briefly, and it appears that it's missing the rel="license" attribute
on the license link, which lets software tools (like OpenAttribute)
know that it's the link for the license.

Best,

NRY