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SmugMug has lots of functionality to protect and brand photos. Watermarks, for instance.

I want to go the other way: most of my photos are Creative Commons licensed. I like them showing up on wikipedia, for instance :-)

On Flickr (which I fled from 3 years ago), it was easy to set a checkbox and it'd show.

The best I can seem to do on SmugMug is to put a note in a custom footer saying "most of 'em are open source CC". Are there other options?

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Here's the (more official?) feature request forum's version of this request: feedback.smugmug.com/forums/17723-smugmug/suggestions/… – P.T. Jan 26 '12 at 19:56
Thanks for that link. – Reinout van Rees Jan 27 '12 at 0:32

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At this time SmugMug doesn't offer an interface for specifying a photo's license. I would recommend the following:

  • In the image's metadata, indicate the licensing. You can do this in the EXIF copyright fields. It's possible to set this via software (including apps such as Lightroom) and most mid- to high-end DSLRs allow for this information to be configured in the camera (look in your camera's manual for details).
  • Include a statement about the license in the image caption. For example:

This photo is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY / Attribution license. It may be used and remixed provided credit is given to Joe Blow Photography

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I would suggest adding this info in the EXIF data no matter where you post! – dpollitt♦ Jan 26 '12 at 23:14
Putting it in the exif metadata is a good tip. Now I've got to figure out how to do it. Well, I can obviously just program a few lines and hit every photo on my harddisk. I'll do that. But the uploaded photos already on smugmug? And the exif copyright field isn't shown prominently in smugmug's web interface, so adding it doesn't help that much. The image caption tip works, but on the other hand I'd like to keep my titles on-topic without having the license text repeated for every photo. So.... thanks for the tips, but I still like smugmug to do something about this :-) – Reinout van Rees Jan 27 '12 at 0:30
@ReinoutvanRees I have Lightroom automatically add my copyright information as part of an Import preset. – ahockley Jan 27 '12 at 1:17
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One could also add a statement in the header/footer that all images are licensed as _. It's commonly done in reverse, to state that the images are protected, but it could work the other way around as well.

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