Reuse of the 17 approved university photographs
Verified 8 November 2026. Selections are recorded in _data/member_photographs.yml; the full-resolution originals, sidecars and evidence belong in the existing Dropbox Pictures archive. The website repository contains only derivatives. No collage has been created and nothing has been published.
Website
The recorded licences permit public website display and modification without a separate copyright permission request, provided their conditions are met. The Network & Partnerships cards credit the creator and link the source, licence and detailed photo-credits page. That page supplies titles, modification notices and reuse conditions. JPEG derivatives carry embedded XMP credits. Existing originals and older website images are preserved.
- CC BY 4.0: credit the creator, retain notices, link the source and licence, and identify changes.
- CC BY-SA 4.0, 3.0, 3.0 Netherlands and 2.0: do the above and apply the required same or permitted compatible/later licence to adaptations. The website derivatives and displayed crops retain each photograph’s original licence.
- Free Art License 1.3 (Addis Ababa): identify the author and modifier, link the original and licence, describe changes, and retain the same or compatible licence for modified copies.
- Dar es Salaam: the author released the photograph into the public domain, with an unconditional fallback permission where a dedication is not effective. Credit is retained as good practice; this is not a CC0 claim.
No embedded copyright statement is treated as overriding the documented public licence. Raw Commons records and embedded metadata are retained together so differences can be checked later.
Future LinkedIn collage — not yet cleared for upload
These licences permit redistribution and adaptation in social-media formats in principle. They do not by themselves establish that CoRE-Math can grant every right required by LinkedIn’s upload agreement. LinkedIn section 3.1 asks for transferable and sublicensable rights. The Commons records contain no separate grant of such rights to CoRE-Math. Therefore unconditional LinkedIn upload clearance is not confirmed for the 16 copyrighted images. This is a platform-terms issue, not missing Commons copyright licences. The public-domain Dar es Salaam photograph has no corresponding copyright-licence obstacle.
Before a collage is published, resolve that platform-terms question and prepare a public attribution page linked prominently from the post. List all 17 creators, titles, source links, licence links and cropping/modification notices. Metadata alone will not suffice because social platforms may strip it. Do not imply that the photographers endorse CoRE-Math.
Treat cropped cells as adaptations for compliance. Preserve each cell’s source licence and credit. A simple collection need not license unrelated elements under every component licence, but a merged creative adaptation can trigger broader ShareAlike/copyleft obligations. CC BY-SA 4.0 is a possible common licence for an adapted collage: CC confirms later-version routes for BY-SA 2.0/3.0 and FAL 1.3 compatibility with BY-SA 4.0. The Netherlands 3.0 legal code, section 4(b), also permits a later licence with the same licence elements. Assess the final composition before choosing a single licence. Do not automatically relicense the unchanged originals or the CoRE-Math logo. If the design is a collection, distinguish the layout/logo terms from each photograph’s licence.
No model/property releases are recorded. In particular, the Zambia photograph includes people. Commons copyright licensing is not evidence of consent to endorsement or advertising; retain a factual university-network context. KwaZulu-Natal’s original is only 938 × 624 pixels: sufficient for a small collage cell, but avoid enlargement for a large standalone panel.
No additional permissions have been requested and no substitute photographs have been selected.
Sources
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- CC BY 4.0
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- CC BY-SA 3.0 Netherlands
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Free Art License 1.3
- CC compatible licences
- CC FAQ on platform terms and third-party content
- LinkedIn User Agreement, section 3.1
- Exact Commons file-page links and evidence: metadata register and per-photograph
rights/commons-record.jsonin the archive.