How to use Creative Commons images

ireland.man · 2015-01-02 17:56:20

I've taken a single image from Wikipedia recently for a non-commercial blog post, one that was labelled for reuse under Creative Commons as long as it was properly attributed. So I embedded a url to the Wikipedia location and placed "CC by 'XXX'" onto the image itself. Am I right in thinking that that's enough? Here's an…

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I've taken a single image from Wikipedia recently for a non-commercial blog post, one that was labelled for reuse under Creative Commons as long as it was properly attributed. So I embedded a url to the Wikipedia location and placed "CC by 'XXX'" onto the image itself. Am I right in thinking that that's enough?

Here's an example of the type of image I used. How should it be attributed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_bat#mediaviewer/File:Fourbats.jpg

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I would think "Photo by Dave Hogg" would be sufficient.

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