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Examples of Ideal Attribution		Why
Image
Elephant@Amboseli by Xiaojun Deng is licensed under CC BY.		Title “Elephant@Amboseli” is noted. Author “Xiaojun Deng” is noted and linked to his profile page. Source “Elephant@Amboseli” is linked to original Flickr page. License “CC BY” is linked to license deed.
Course content
Module 4: Protein Structure ©2013 Open Learning Initiative is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.		Title “Module 4: Protein Structure” is noted. Author “Open Learning Initiative” -linked to the project page. Source “Module 4: Protein Structure“-linked to original course content page. License “CC BY-NC-SA” is linked to license deed.
Course content
This work, “Elephant in yellow”, is a derivative of Elephant@Amboseli by Xiaojun Deng, used under CC BY. “elephant in yellow” is licensed under CC BY by Boyoung Chae.		Title, Original Author, Source, and License are all noted. Made it clear that it is a derivative work. New author of the derivative work is also noted.
Offline document
“Elephant@Amboseli” by Xiaojun Deng is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/>.		Title, Original Author, Source, and License are all noted. The licensed type and the URL are spelled out in full.

Examples of Incorrect attribution		Why
Image
Elephant Photo: Creative Commons Licensed.		Author is not noted. Creative Commons is not the author of this photo. There is no link to original photo. There is no mention of the license, much less a link to the license. “Creative Commons” is an organization.
Derivative work
This work, “Green Banana”, is a derivative of “Banana!” by Graham Reznick used under CC BY NC-ND. “Green Banana” is licensed under CC BY by Boyoung Chae.		There is no link to original photo. The original photo was released under CC BY-NC-ND, which means that the user is not permitted to distribute the modified material.

Last updated: 02 03 2016