Images, text and licensing
This site has a strictly educational purpose; it is non-commercial, and we receive no financial or professional benefit from it.
We believe that copyright is an important legal concept, and it is essential that the whole community respects the rights of photographers and authors. The contents of the site are drawn from a variety of sources, and subject to a wide range of licences. You’ll typically find the licensing of text and any images at the bottom of each page, and the images used on the title pages of the website are attributed at the bottom of this page. We’ve tried our best to make these attributions and licensing accurate, but if you believe this site has made any errors, please contact us.
For images, the information will probably take the format of an image description, the author (or photographer)’s name, and description of under what licence the image was released. That last bit is important, as it describes how you may (or may not) be able to to use the image yourself.
Please don’t rely on this site for those details being correct though – we can’t take responsibility for their original sourcing, and you’ll need to check the licensing for yourselves if you intend to reuse images or text. That’s particularly important from an international perspective – each country’s laws on copyright and licencing are slightly different.
As an example of this applied in practice, the image on the right would be described as ‘adapted from “Warkworth Castle’s keep, 2007“, author Draco2008, released under CC BY-SA 2.0‘.
This indicates that this stunning image was created by a photographer who wished to be identified as Draco2008, and who has generously permitted us all to use the image under the terms of a legal agreement called “Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic“. There are some conditions, though, including the proviso that we explain that the photograph was taken by him (which is called “attribution”). The “adapted” tells any readers that the image here was altered from Draco’s original – in this case, trimmed around the edges slightly.
Unless otherwise stated, text on this website is released under CC BY-NC 2.0, which essentially means that you can reuse it yourself, provided that you attribute it to this website, and do not use it for any commercial purpose.
You’ll see various pages on the Castellogy website have used text that has been adapted in various ways from the English language website Wikipedia: these are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and can therefore be used for any purpose – including commercial purposes – again with some provisos, including that you must attribute the material back to this website and the Wikipedia.
Attribution of images on Castellogy’s introduction pages
The introductory pages use images from the Wikimedia, Flickr and Cadw websites, attributed and licensed as follows:
Front page
Sliders
Adapted from “2008-05-17 GreatBritain OrfordCastle“, author Gernot Keller, released under CC BY-SA 2.5; adapted from “Caernarfon castle relection“, author Richard Outram, released under CC BY 2.0; adapted from “Stokesay Castle from churchyard 1“, (Public Domain); adapted from “Dolbadarn Castle, Just above Llyn Peris in Llanberis“, author Garry Platt, released under CC BY 2.0; adapted from “Deal Castle“, author Williami5, released under CC BY 2.0; adapted from “Sherborne Castle Star Trail“, author Rich Grundy, released under CC BY-NC 2.0; adapted from “Tower of London at Night“, author Nan Palmero, released under CC BY 2.0; “Chepstow Castle 2“, author Gordon Robertson, released under CC BY 2.0; adapted from “Birdseye view of Windsor Castle in 1658“, (Public Domain); adapted from “BitvaLincoln1217ortho” (Public Domain).
Navigational boxes
Adapted from “Beaumaris aerial“, author Cadw, released under the Open Government Licence v1.0; adapted from “BitvaLincoln1217ortho” (Public Domain); adapted from “Carisbrooke Castle gatehouse“, author Defacto, released under CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted from “Castel Coch ceiling and light“, author Stuart Heath, released under CC BY SA 2.0;
Locations pages
Main location page
Adapted from “Dolwyddelan Castle“, author Cadw, released under the Open Government Licence v1.0; adapted from “Ypres Tower – Rye“, author Neil Howard, released under CC BY-NC 2.0; adapted from “Skenfrith Castle“, author Davidmholmes51, released under CC BY-SA 4.0; “West side of Monnow Bridge“, author Philip Halling, released under CC BY-SA 2.0; adapted from “Battle of Tewkesbury reenactment – pre-clash preparation“, author Antony Stanley, released under CC BY-SA 2.0; “Knights fighting at a Cadw property”, author Cadw, Crown Copyright, released under Open Government Licence 3.0; adapted from “Conwy Town Walls“, author David Dixon, released under CC BY-SA 2.0; adapted from “Deal Castle Aerial View“, author Lieven Smits, released under CC BY-SA 3.0.
History page
Adapted from “Conisborough Castle“, author Happymillerman, released under under CC BY 2.0; adapted from “Cannon – Calshot Castle – Calshot, England – DSC04186” (Public Domain); adapted from “Llanbeblig_Hours_(f._2r.)_The_Annunciation” (Public Domain).
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Architecture page
Adapted from “Looking west from Clun Castle“, author Penny Mayes, released under CC BY-SA 2.0; adapted from “Portcullis“, author Matt Taylor, released under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0; adapted from “Clifford’s Tower“, author Mark Bulmer, released under CC BY 2.0.
Community page
Adapted from “Manuscript“, author Toma Coates, released under CC BY-NC 2.0; adapted from “Kenilworth Castle, July 2010“, author Clive, released under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0; adapted from “Fancy wallpaper and decorations at Dunster Castle“, author Steve Bittinger, released under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Map images
Attribution of the thumbnail images used on the locational maps can be found on the respective article pages – click on the image to move to the page concerned.
Underlying mapping is typically identified as copyright OpenStreetMap contributors, and released under either the Open Data Commons Open Database License or CC BY-SA 2.0.
Attribution
The text of this page is licensed under under CC BY-NC 2.0.