If you’ve ever written a paper, you know that citations are important. But for whatever reason, if you write that paper online (as a blog for example) then citations and image credits somehow become, well, less important. Thanks to Pia Jane Bijkerk, Erin Loechner and Yvette van Boven, it’s now easier to figure out the proper method of crediting images used online (and offline, really). Click image to zoom, enjoy!
Source: http://www.designspongeonline.com/2011/03/how-to-credit-just-check-the-poster.html
Pia Jane Bijkerk, Erin Loechner and Yvette van Boven created this handy flowchart that shows how to properly provide credit for images used on blogs and websites. Thumbnail source.
I write about brands and companies on my blog and properly crediting images is important to me. What I’ve been doing is asking the companies through Twitter if I can use their images from their Twitter and Facebook profiles. When they say yes I use them and add a link in the article back to their website. Is this OK from a legal stand point? Please advise if possible. Thank you;)