Where to put CC-by attribution?
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 05:42
Hi, if I use CC-by art in a game, where should I put the attribution?
I tried looking for the answer but couldn't find anything, except this:
http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/using-art-under-cc-by-30-for-logo
which says you have to put attribution everywhere the art appears, which basically makes it impossible to use in games. Is this correct?
If not, would putting a credits file with the game be enough? A credits section in game?
Thanks.
Usually artist tells how to give attribution. You can find instruction under section:
Copyright/Attribution Notice:
So if you use CC-BY art in your game you should credits in your game. Link you gave talks about using CC-BY license art in logo. So if you use logo in a game it should be credited. If logo is used in web page it should be credited or used in a video it should be credit. But if you use art in game single place is enough for giving credits not every time art is visible or hearable.
Attribution everywhere the art appears would mean something more along the lines of, say, in every game or work it appears in, not that every time a graphic appears on the screen you need to roll the credits. Just do what other games do: have a credits section on the main menu or somesuch and include the information there. I think that that will satisfy most everyone. A separate credits file distributed with the game (ala a readme) might technically fulfill the requirement (I don't know if it does, I would suspect so though), but it may be hard to keep it together on all platforms and, frankly, it's not as satisfying for (and indeed, respectful of) the artists as doing it formally in the game.