Editorial transparency
Licenses and attribution
Rules for respecting licenses and attribution for first-party and third-party material.
Third-party rights
Each resource retains the terms stated by its owner or provider. Its presence on CosmoInsider neither transfers its license nor authorizes uses that the original source does not permit.
Before reusing material
Read the credit and original-source link attached to the resource, verify the current license and follow its requirements. If attribution is unclear, use the contact form before reuse.
What an attribution should contain
Where the source provides it, the media record includes creator, provider, source link, license and any required wording. Credits are displayed without obscuring the image, and the media catalogue records where each asset is used so that a correction, license change or removal request can be applied consistently.
License audit before publication
At acquisition we verify the license on the original provider’s page, not only on a search result or copied file. The record should retain the license name and version, creator, provider, source URL, required credit, modification conditions and relevant restrictions. Where possible, the retrieval date and technical metadata provide evidence of what was reviewed.
Compatibility is checked for the intended use: publication, resizing, cropping, translation of a caption, gallery display or creation of a derivative are not always covered by the same terms. Public-domain status is documented rather than assumed. An unknown, contradictory or unverifiable license blocks approval until a safer source or explicit permission is available.
Changes, claims and takedown requests
A rights holder can use the contact form to identify the asset, affected URL, claimed right and requested remedy. We may ask for information that demonstrates authority, while avoiding unnecessary personal data. A credible urgent claim can lead to temporary removal during review; that precaution does not predetermine the final legal assessment.
If a credit was incomplete, we correct it in the media record and every known use. If the license changed after lawful acquisition, we examine the recorded terms and whether continued use remains permitted. When removal is required, cached renditions and thumbnails are included in the process rather than deleting only the original file.
Decision rules for reuse and attribution
Attribution is part of permission, not a substitute for it. Naming an author does not legalize a use that the license prohibits, and the absence of a visible copyright notice does not establish that a work is free to reuse. We respect requirements concerning commercial use, derivatives, share-alike terms, source links and specified credit wording. Where conditions cannot be met in the intended layout, we choose another resource.
The credit shown publicly should be readable but proportionate, with fuller metadata available in the media record. Editorial text, screenshots, charts, logos and agency imagery may follow different terms even when found on the same website, so permission is assessed per resource. Questions with material legal uncertainty are not resolved by automation; publication is paused pending a documented, safer decision.