Do the nature scenes need a credit or a clearance record? – Curated Nature Scenes

No attribution is required for any permitted use, on screen, in print or anywhere else. No credit is needed in an end roll, on a poster, or in an advertisement.

But screen work has a paperwork culture that print does not, and the useful advice here is not about credit at all.

Keep a clearance record

Not because we require it. Because someone will ask.

For each licensed image, record three things: the asset id, the PayPal order id, and where it was used. That is the entire system, and a spreadsheet is enough.

When a distributor, an insurer or a legal review asks whether the plate in the title sequence is cleared, you answer in ten seconds instead of reconstructing it from email eighteen months later. On a production with forty licensed stills, that difference is a day.

The asset id is the stable identifier

Every image has a thirty-two character asset id. It travels in the delivered file's metadata, appears on your receipt, and is in the image page source.

Titles change, slugs change, filenames get renamed by whoever last touched them. The asset id does not. If you record one thing, record this.

Where a credit still makes sense

End credits, as house style. Many productions credit stock sources as a matter of course. Doing so is fine and changes nothing about your rights.

Editorial and documentary contexts, where the provenance of an image is part of what you are telling the audience.

Location captions, where a place is documented on the image page and naming it is genuinely informative.

What a credit does not do

It does not extend the licence, does not substitute for buying one, and creates no right to redistribute the file. And it must not imply that this site endorses or has approved your production.

Accuracy

If you name a location on screen, use the one recorded on the image page. Where none is recorded, none was documented, and inventing one for a caption is how errors reach an audience and then get repeated.

Corrections are welcome and acted on quickly, because a catalogue error propagates into everyone else's work.

What a distributor usually asks for

In practice the questions are always the same three, and all of them are answered by the record described above.

Who granted the rights, and can you show it: the PayPal receipt, naming this site and the amount. What exactly was licensed: the asset id, which identifies one specific photograph and nothing else. And for how long and where: perpetual and worldwide, which is what this page says and what the licence page states in full.

Nothing else is normally needed, and nothing else exists to provide.