Reprint Rights: Reusing Diagrams, Data and Images

Material on Once Upon a Version comes under three kinds of terms: the site's own diagrams and data, which are free to reuse with credit; its illustrations, which are not; and pictures and texts by others, which keep their own status. Every image on the site carries a credit line that says which of these applies.

Diagrams and data: CC BY 4.0

The diagrams this site draws itself are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). That covers the motif grids, the registers of named tellers, the timelines of editions and the version comparisons. The CSV data tables offered for download beside the articles are released under the same license.

You may copy, adapt and republish them, including for commercial use, as long as you give credit. Each diagram has a ready-made credit line beneath it, in this form:

"[Diagram title]" by Once Upon a Version — [Original article URL] — licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Put the diagram's title where the first brackets are and the address of the article it comes from where the second brackets are; the line under each diagram already has both filled in. For a CSV file, use the dataset title given in the note that accompanies the file, in the same form. A link back to the article is the way this site hopes to be credited, but it is not a condition of the license. If you change a diagram or a table, say that you changed it.

Some diagrams are drawn over a public-domain picture or a page scan. The license covers only the layer this site drew; the picture underneath keeps its own credit, which is printed with the diagram.

The CSV files also contain short quotations from public-domain editions. Those quotations were free before they were put in the table, and the license does not change that. The English renderings this site adds beside German, French and other foreign-language quotations may be reused under CC BY 4.0 like the diagrams.

Illustrations

The embroidery-style illustrations on the site are not under CC BY. Each one carries this credit line:

Illustration: Once Upon a Version. Generated illustration — not a historical image, manuscript or record. © Once Upon a Version, all rights reserved; reuse by request.

To reuse one, write to contact@onceuponaversion.com with the address of the page where it appears.

Pictures and texts by others

Many of the pictures on the site are older works: illustrations and engravings from books, prints, photographs of paintings, and early photographs. Some are works that their museums have released under CC0. None of them is covered by this site's license. Each credit line names the work, its creator and the page it was taken from, and then gives its status:

• For a public-domain work, the credit says where it is in the public domain and why, country by country, for example by year of publication in the United States and by the creator's death date in Germany and France.
• For a work under an open license, the credit names that license and links to it, and the terms of that license apply.

The same rule holds for quoted texts: a public-domain edition can be used by anyone, and a short quotation from a work still in copyright remains the property of its rights holder.

Some sources are only summarized on the site, never quoted or reproduced, because their terms do not allow reuse for this kind of site. Their facts are restated in this site's own words with a reference, and nothing from them appears in the data tables.

The article text itself is not under CC BY. Short quotations with a credit and a link are welcome; for anything longer, write to the address above.

Fonts

The site is set in three typefaces, each released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (openfontlicense.org): Sorts Mill Goudy for headings, Alegreya Sans for the text and Cutive Mono for Telling cards, Voice tags and captions.

Citing a page

Every article has a Cite this page box near its end. It gives the site name, the article title, the date of first publication, the date of the latest substantive revision and the page's permanent address, followed by a space for the date you accessed it. Fill that date in yourself when you cite the page. The site does not issue DOIs, so no DOI appears in a citation of this site.

Corrections that change a cited page are listed on the version history page, and the methods behind the diagrams and tables are on Tracing a version.