Yes, the spirit of the license I think would imply that the link is in proximity to the spot where the image is used. But I suppose a separate page works. Thanks for looking that up!

I guess I just thought that royalty free applied to the ones you paid for because if the images are free it’s implicit that it’s royalty free… or something like that. Maybe I just didn’t know how to describe it

Just looked up Creative Commons, their licenses for attribution don’t seem to specify where the attribution should be. If you read the commons deed it says that you need to attribute in the manner specified by the author. So I suppose if they didn’t specify how you should link, another page would be okay. However in keeping with the spirit of the license the link to the other page should probably be quite prominent and/or near the image.

Sleep well!

I’m probably one of the few who doesn’t read Skelliewag (have enjoyed her contributions to Freelance Switch though!), but I wonder if that one page counts enough. Do you know if the license specifically says it must accompany the image? I would think it does, and in that case, the one page wouldn’t be following the rule. But if it doesn’t, then that’s a great idea! (sorry to be so critical in this reply… it’s really late and I’m tired and a little grumpy. Off to bed for me now!)

I use Flickr occasionally – Alec mentioned you can search by license. I do that by going to flickr.com/creativecommons…
Skelliewag.org has a page for photo attributions, which I think is a clever way of providing a link attribute without interrupting the flow of your posts or designs.