What happens if you don't respect CC?

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As the Creative Commons organization rightly points out, it promotes copyright law; however, it cannot control the content that is published on third-party websites.

Therefore, if an author believes that his or her work is being used by you in an incorrect manner, he or she should seek advice or consult a lawyer in order to take appropriate legal action. Creative Commons cannot enforce legal sanctions if the work is published on a third-party website.

Now, if the art has been misused by one chiropractor email address of the websites controlled by Creative Commons , the organization asks the author of the work to send the notification with the following information:

Reasonably sufficient details to allow us to identify the work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works are claimed to have been infringed, a representative list of such works (for example: title, author, any registration or tracking numbers, URLs)
Reasonably sufficient details to allow us to identify and locate the material that is claimed to be infringing (for example, a link to the page containing the material).
Your contact information so that we can contact you (for example, your address, phone number, email address).
A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material identified in (2) is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Your physical or electronic signature.
That is, temporarily nothing may happen, but if the author of the work wanted to take legal action against the website that is making incorrect use of the Creative Commons images , the website involved may find itself in legal trouble.

How to attribute Creative Commons images?
Attributing images means that you can give credit to the author on the website where you have published the image; this means, for example, if you have published it on your blog to represent a post:

You must mention the author of the work that links to the original source.
The type of license and if it has undergone any modification, explain what it was.
Let's look at these screenshots taken from the Creative Commons wiki:

example of how to attribute creative commons image banks with CC0 license

If you look closely, both contain information to identify the original author of the work. They include:

The title of the image with a link to the source to the official Creative Commons site on Flikr.
The name of the author, linked to his official site on Flikr.
The type of license.
In the first screenshot, you will see that there is a modified version of the same image, as that modification is also mentioned; it says “desaturated from the original”. This indicates that the image has been modified by the user.
That is, in all the forms seen, you have to mention the author, the type of license and, if you have versioned, you must also mention it.

An example from our blog is this one:

example of how to attribute creative commons image banks with CC0 license

Generally, the images on our blog are taken from Pexels, an image bank that publishes works under a CC0 license; that is, they can be modified and used for commercial purposes (at least that's what Pexels makes clear ). Even so, we prefer to attribute them to the original author, because who does n't like to receive credit for their art?

If in your case you are using Creative Commons images, our recommendation is that you start using attribution to make it clear who the original author of the work is .