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Reuse and Credits

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This page says who made what on Flickers & Tintypes and on what terms each piece can be used again. There are four kinds of material, and each has its own terms.

Diagrams, loops and data tables made for this site

Diagrams, filmstrip breakdowns, measurement overlays, timelines, reading-path overlays, animation loops and the CSV data tables offered for download are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, adapt and republish them, including commercially, as long as you give credit. Each one carries a ready-made credit line in this form:

"{title}" by Flickers & Tintypes, {page address} — CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Replace {title} with the name shown under the item and {page address} with the address of the page it appears on. A link back to that page is appreciated; it is not a condition of the license. If you change the item, say so in your credit.

The license covers only what was made for this site. When a diagram is drawn over a historical frame, scan or photograph, that underlying image keeps its own status, given in its own credit line. When the underlying image is under CC BY-SA, the combined diagram is released under CC BY-SA 4.0 instead, as that license requires, and its credit line says so.

The data tables hold single facts, one claim to a row, each with its source in the same row. CC BY 4.0 covers the way the table is compiled and laid out here; it does not give rights in the sources themselves.

Illustrations

A few pictures on the site are illustrations rather than records. Each is labeled Illustration and carries this notice:

"Illustration: Flickers & Tintypes. Generated schematic image — not a photograph, film frame or historical record. No copyright is claimed in this generated imagery; you may reuse it, and a credit to Flickers & Tintypes is appreciated."

Those are the full terms. If you reuse an illustration, please keep it labeled as an illustration so that nobody mistakes it for a historical image.

Historical frames, scans and photographs

Film frames, comics art, catalog pages and photographs from museums, libraries and archives belong to their own makers and holders, not to this site. Each carries its own credit line naming the work, the creator as the source names them (or "creator unknown"), the source page, and the license or the basis for public-domain status. The images used on this site fall into these groups:

  • Public domain in both the United States and the European Union: films, comics, prints and photographs whose public-domain status rests on publication date and on the authors' dates of death. The credit states the basis rather than a bare "public domain".
  • CC0 or Public Domain Mark: images that the holding institution has released or marked this way.
  • CC BY: photographs and collection images that require credit; any crop or added label is listed after the credit as a modification.
  • CC BY-SA: used only within article text, never as a card or preview image, and shared on the same terms.

Film frames also give the copy they were taken from and the timecode in that copy, for example "frame at 13:14.5 of this copy". The timecode holds only for that copy. Images whose licenses forbid commercial use or adaptation are not used here.

To reuse any of these, follow the license or public-domain basis in the image's own credit line, not the license for this site's diagrams. Where a holding institution's record could not be consulted directly, this site's source notes for that image say so; check the institution's record yourself before relying on it.

Fonts

Headings are set in Besley, body text in Libre Franklin and data in Sometype Mono. All three are released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and are served from this site.

Citing a page

Each article ends with a Cite this page block giving the site name, the title, the date first published, the date of the last substantive revision and the page address. Add the date you accessed the page. The site does not issue DOIs.

Questions about rights, or a credit that needs fixing, can go to contact@flickersandtintypes.com; see Contact.