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"Black Singer Performs At The International Amphitheater In Chicago, 10/1973" and "Black soul singer Isaac Hayes performs at the International Amphitheater in Chicago..." by John H. White, here cropped and remixed, are in the public domain.

Attribution in the Age of AI

by Jack Hardinges, Irina Bejan Licenses & Tools, Sustaining the Commons

Image by Diego Delso is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Attribution has always been a cornerstone of working with other people’s creativity and knowledge. As Creative Commons reminds us, practicing attribution serves many important functions, from providing verifiable evidence of a claim, to paying respect to the work of others, and creating pathways for traffic and financial value to flow. Despite the importance of attribution, many of today’s AI systems fail to acknowledge the sources of knowledge and creativity that make them possible.

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"London King's Cross rainbow light tunnel" by The wub, here remixed, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
"Library" by thievingjoker is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. "A New View of the Moon" from NASA, here remixed, is marked in the public domain. "Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition (1911)" by Stewart Butterfield is licensed under CC BY 2.0. "Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)" by Ogata Kōrin, 1709, is marked in the public domain.
“Hal Abelson” by David Kindler is licensed under CC BY 2.0. “Lawrence Lessig at the Creative Commons Global Summit 2015” by Sebastiaan ter Burg is licensed under CC BY 2.0. “Molly Van Houweling” by David Kindler is licensed under CC BY 2.0. "Glenn Otis Brown of Creative Commons” by David Thompson is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
Photo by Anna Tumadóttir is licensed under CC BY 4.0.