Compliance reference AMR-ICC-2026-1018
Live audit of amorielli.com · 18 October 2026
Amorielli runs on photography, and none of it is taken without permission. The photographs of the houses in the Collection come from their owners. Every other photograph the magazine did not make itself comes from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, is downloaded to our own servers rather than linked from someone else's, and carries its full credit as a label on the photograph. On 18 October 2026 an automated audit read all 355 pages of amorielli.com and confirmed that each of the 513 Commons photographs is credited on every page that shows it, or is in the public domain. A photograph counts once here, however many pages show it and however many sizes of it the site keeps.
What a lawful credit requires
A Creative Commons licence makes attribution a condition of use — leave the credit off and the use is simply unlicensed. A complete credit carries four things, which the licences call TASL: the Title of the work, the Author, the Source (a link to the original file), and the Licence, both named and linked to its deed. Because we resize and crop images to fit the page, each credit also says so.
Where the credit appears
A credit that lives only in a data file or an image's alt text is, by Creative Commons' own guidance, no credit at all. So every credit here renders as a small label on the photograph itself — it travels with the image, and survives a screenshot, a redesign, or a page being split up. The complete register of every image also lives on the credits page.
The licences in use
| Licence | What it requires | Images |
|---|---|---|
| CC BY-SA 4.0 | Attribution and share-alike | 342 |
| CC BY 4.0 | Attribution | 40 |
| CC BY-SA 3.0 | Attribution and share-alike | 53 |
| CC BY 3.0 | Attribution | 19 |
| CC BY 3.0 US | Attribution | 1 |
| CC0 | No attribution required | 26 |
| Public domain | No attribution required | 31 |
| No restrictions | No attribution required | 1 |
| Total | Photographs from Wikimedia Commons | 513 |
None is under a CC 1.0, 2.0 or 2.5 licence. Those older licences carry no cure period, so in October 2026 the magazine replaced every photograph that had one, and the tools that add photographs now refuse them.
The imagery we make ourselves
Beyond the licensed photographs, Amorielli publishes imagery it creates in-house: the issue cover art in all its formats (photography, portraits, illustration, type and concept covers), the contributor portraits, and the illustrations in The Wire. These are original, AI-assisted studio images made for the magazine — they need no third-party licence, the people in them are fictional, and we never present one as a photograph of a specific, named property or of a real, identifiable person. Where a cover comments on a company or a product, any symbol shown is a generic drawing of our own; third-party names and marks belong to their owners and appear for editorial commentary only, with no affiliation or endorsement implied. That rule is stated plainly on the About page and in every issue's colophon.
This is monitored, not a one-off
The audit behind this page re-runs against the live site. Any image added later without a complete, rendered credit is caught before it can become a problem, and this report is re-issued with a new date. If you hold rights to an image and have a concern, email us and we will address it promptly.
Last check: 18 October 2026. The picture desk crawled 354 pages of amorielli.com and looked at all 1148 distinct image files on them, of every kind, from photographs to the magazine's own studio images. None is broken, hotlinked or missing its credit. Layout notes for the desk, none of them a licence issue: 37 pictures that recur across many pages; 54 pictures shown twice on one page; 7 near-duplicate pairs on a page. The desk is run by Elio Marchetti, illustrations director; it re-runs every week and after every new picture, and checks that each licensed photograph's credit is actually rendered on the page it appears on.
As of 18 October 2026, each of the 513 Wikimedia Commons photographs published on amorielli.com is either credited with its title, author, source and licence on every page that shows it, verified live across 355 pages, or is in the public domain. The photographs of the Collection's houses come from their owners, and the magazine's own studio images need no third-party licence. Reference AMR-ICC-2026-1018.