How do I set the license for images on my site in Google Images?

Question

Google Images has an option to filter images based on license.

License filter screenshot

Each image on my site has a details page, where I have the following link to denote the license:

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_US" target="_blank">CC-BY</a>

It's a modified version of the sample code from Creative Commons - Choose a License.

However, I see images that Google has indexed since I added this code do not appear when I select a license filter.

Check out this post http://codegena.com/label-image-license-types-for-google-images/ — Shan Eapen Koshy, Sep 22 '15 at 16:50
Done. It has the same info in the answer posted here a year ago, and it was written by you. — Sean Fujiwara, Sep 23 '15 at 08:51
Yes, but atleast I have written a little more. I found the answer from google's blog and not from the answer. Anyway thanks for checking it out :) — Shan Eapen Koshy, Sep 23 '15 at 11:53

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '14 at 00:38

You need to wrap it around a div with an about attribute. Here's an example that Google provides:

<div about="image.jpg">
  <img src="image.jpg" alt="" />
  <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0</a>
</div>

So in your case:

<div about="image.jpg">
  <img src="image.jpg" alt="" />
  <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_US" target="_blank">CC-BY</a>
</div>

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyhasVn2jw, http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/08/simple-way-to-specify-image-licenses.html

Thanks, this looks good. I'm going to implement it and make sure it works before I accept. — Sean Fujiwara, Mar 30 '14 at 01:36

How do I set the license for images on my site in Google Images?

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