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Although you do not need further permission to use materials with a CC BY license, you do still need to attribute the creator and/or copyright holder in your use or citation of the work. You can find the specific required attribution line of each collection in the list below.
- Fang family San Francisco examiner photograph archive negative files, BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG, and the Fang family San Francisco examiner photograph archive photographic print files, BANC PIC 2006.029--PIC
- As of January 2024, all of the photographs taken by staff photographers for the San Francisco Examiner within the collection at The Bancroft Library are covered by a CC BY license. Photographs in this collection taken by anyone other than these staff photographers, or works taken by these staff photographers but not found in this collection, are not covered by the CC BY license, and you must either make a fair use determination or obtain permission from the copyright holder ahead of using them in your project.
- Attribution: Fang family San Francisco Examiner photograph archive, © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
- Roy Flamm collection of California architectural photographs, BANC PIC 1978.040-.089
- As of January 2023 all of Roy Flamm's work within this collection at The Bancroft Library is covered by a CC BY license. Photographs taken by Flamm, but not found in this collection, are not covered by the CC BY license and you must either make a fair use determination or obtain permission from the copyright holder ahead of using them in your project.
- Attribution: Roy Flamm collection of California architectural photographs, © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
- Dennis Galloway Photographs of the University of California, Berkeley
- As of July 2023, all of Dennis Galloway's work within this collection at The Bancroft Library is covered by a CC BY license. Photographs taken by Galloway, but not found in this collection, are not covered by the CC BY license, and you must either make a fair use determination or obtain permission from the copyright holder ahead of using them in your project.
- Attribution: © Dennis Galloway. The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
- Johan Hagemeyer photograph collection, BANC PIC 1964.063-.064
- As of January 2023, all of Johan Hagemeyer's work, within this collection at The Bancroft Library, is covered by a CC BY license. Photographs taken by Hagemeyer, but not found in this collection, and photographs taken by others and found within this collection, are not covered by the CC BY license, and you must either make a fair use determination or obtain permission from the copyright holder ahead of using them in your project.
- Attribution: Johan Hagemeyer photograph collection, © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
- Peoples Temple photographs from the San Francisco examiner archive, BANC PIC 2006.088
- As of January 2024, all of the photographs taken by staff photographers for the San Francisco Examiner within the collection at The Bancroft Library are covered by a CC BY license. Photographs in this collection taken by anyone other than these staff photographers, or works taken by these staff photographers but not found in this collection, are not covered by the CC BY license, and you must either make a fair use determination or obtain permission from the copyright holder ahead of using them in your project.
- Attribution: Peoples Temple photographs from the San Francisco examiner archive, © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
- San Francisco News-Call Bulletin newspaper photograph archive, BANC PIC 1959.010, and the 1934 International Longshoremen's Association and General strikes of San Francisco photograph archive, BANC PIC 1959.003
- As of January 2023, all of the photographs taken by staff photographers for the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin (and its predecessors), within the collection at The Bancroft Library, are covered by a CC BY license. Photographs in this collection taken by anyone other than these staff photographers, or works taken by these staff photographers but not found in this collection, are not covered by the CC BY license, and you must either make a fair use determination or obtain permission from the copyright holder ahead of using them in your project.
- Attribution: San Francisco News-Call Bulletin newspaper photograph archive, © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
- Michelle Vignes photograph archive, BANC PIC 2003.108
- As of May 2024, all of Michelle Vignes' work, within this collection at The Bancroft Library, is covered by a CC BY license. Photographs taken by Vignes, but not found in this collection, and photographs taken by others and found within this collection, are not covered by the CC BY license, and you must either make a fair use determination or obtain permission from the copyright holder ahead of using them in your project.
- Attribution: Michelle Vignes photograph archive, © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.