HPHK Attribution policy

The photographs on the Historical Photographs of Hong Kong website have been generously donated to the University of Bristol Special Collections by individuals and families. They have given us permission to licence the material under Creative Commons licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.

This means you are welcome to download and use the image for non-commercial reasons – for example, in education, research, or a personal project – but when you do you must provide an attribution, and you are not permitted to make new work from the original.

We would like you to credit both the collection and the university in any attribution text. Using the photograph’s own unique reference number (beginning DM) will help any researchers in the future, reading your work, attending your talks, etc. to quickly track down the image should they wish to. It also helps us immensely when enquirers are able to provide reference numbers when they contact us about images.

We would like you to use the following attribution when you use the digital image:

[Image Reference], [Name of Creator] Collection, University of Bristol Special Collections. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. [Page URL]

Example:

DM3243/4, Shao and Chao Mai Collection, University of Bristol Special Collections. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://hphkbristol.net/photograph/DM3243-4/

DM2986/1/135, Anthony Clark Collection, University of Bristol Special Collections Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://hphkbristol.net/photograph/DM2986-1-135/

You can find out more about the Creative Commons licences and appropriate credit here: Creative Commons License Versions