Green Thursday - Color Challenge - Giving Credit
I just realized that my previous post would have fitted this green topic perfectly. Envy green! But now it's too late. I know I could alter it and copy paste the text to this day as a "new" post, but I don't want to do that. What's written, is written. So I have to settle with stating that it could have been a good subject. Although I don't have any photos of green boats. Ships. Vessels. Still unclear.
Painting: CC BY-SA gallery.insaneworks.fi
Loose Feeling - Irtonainen olo - Oil painting - 2003
So instead of envy green I'm going to focus on another green topic. Newbie green. Noobness. Not knowing, not thinking things through, maybe even not caring.
First some info, my opinion, facts from others and finally after the second picture my contribution to you. Some help for newbies.
When you use a picture, you really should every time also tell your readers the source. Every single time. Who created it, who owns the copyrights, where was it taken from. If you were the one who took the photo or drew the picture, state that it's yours. You created it. You own the copyrights and if you decided to put it under any Creative Commons license, tell it to the world. If you found it from the internet and if you are allowed to use the picture, tell your readers where you found it. Link the source. Even if it's licensed CC0. At least tell everyone that you are not the artist who made the picture.
Why, you ask? Why indeed. In my opinion there are too many ignorant people. People who haven't taken the time to dig into copyright laws, do not understand that good artists haven't always been spectacular but have trained themselves with time and money, and the unfortunate fact that there are several people who exploit hard working artists and their work. People who take copyrighted work, "clean" it and share it out there with CC0 license or as their own. That's why. If you use someone else's work, tell people where you got it. Maybe you didn't steel it but someone else might have. We need to change the fact that people just don't know or don't realize.
Read more about what artists can do from @kay-leclerc's post The #1 Money Sucking Problem Creators Face, what users can do from the post Copyright for Users - Not Monkeys and Andy Days post Why You Should Never Upload Your Images to Unsplash.
Photo: CC BY-SA gallery.insaneworks.fi
Handprint - Kädenjälki - Photomanipulation - 2017
I am totally into sharing my work with licenses that liberate more than restrict. It leads to evolving art and new ideas from old ones. But I'm not into steeling art or using it in the ways that the creator didn't intent it to be used.
So give credit to the artist. Tell people who made it. Link the source. If the page where you write does not link anything automatically, use HTML. As you see, underneath every picture that I use is a text and two links.
The code looks like this:
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank">CC BY-SA</a> <a href="http://gallery.insaneworks.fi" target="_blank">gallery.insaneworks.fi</a>
I understand that target="_blank" has no effect here in Steemit, but I've been using it in hope that maybe one day it will work. I use target="_blank" always because it's wise not to let the reader go astray too easy and loose my page.
So without the target="_blank" the code would look like this:
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA</a> <a href="http://gallery.insaneworks.fi">gallery.insaneworks.fi</a>
Here's breaking the simple HTML code for you:
Looks like:
CC BY-SA
Is:
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA</a>
Means:
<a href="THE ADDRESS">THE TEXT or THE ADDRESS</a>
Remember:
When you start a tag, close it too. <a href=""></a> When you use the first ", use the second " also.
Give credit.
Every time.
Link the source.
Tell people who made the art you're using.
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