Credits & media policy
Who made the pictures, and how we use other people’s music
Our own images
The mosaic-tile banner on the home page was made for Scruffy Cèilidh and is ours. The tile-mark favicon is ours.
Openly licensed photographs
The photographs below come from Wikimedia Commons under the licences shown. Where a licence requires it, the same licence applies to our use of the image. Click any title to reach the original file page.
| Image | Title | Author | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
 | A pub session: close quarters, shared tunes, nobody on a stage. Irish Folk session The Old Dubliner Hamburg 337-0007-hinnerk-ruemenapf | Hinnerk R (Hinnerk Rümenapf) | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
 | A pub session: close quarters, shared tunes, nobody on a stage. Irish Folk Session-The Old Dubliner Hamburg 208-0075-f-hinnerk-ruemenapf-prev | Hinnerk R (Hinnerk Rümenapf) | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
 | A pub session: close quarters, shared tunes, nobody on a stage. Irish Folk Session-The Old Dubliner Hamburg 208-0116-f-hinnerk-ruemenapf-prev | Hinnerk R (Hinnerk Rümenapf) | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
 | The fiddle — the same instrument as a violin, played a different way. After a lengthy battle with a life-threatening illnes, Dave Swarbrick, the legendary Fairport Convention fiddle player and long time collaborator with Martin Carthy, is back on form. Here he plays a (214417818) | Bryan Ledgard | CC BY 2.0 |
 | The bodhrán: goatskin over a wooden frame, played with a tipper. 203-0092-bodhran o-kane sp-tuning hinnerk-ruemenapf-v01-i01-h2000 | Hinnerk R Hinnerk Rümenapf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
 | The concertina — the small squeezebox that carries a dance tune all night. 20 key anglo concertina | Alwayswonder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
 | The tin whistle: cheap, honest, and harder to play well than it looks. 20260414 Clarke Tin Whistle A7302190 | Zinnmann | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
 | The clàrsach, the wire- or gut-strung harp of Scotland and Ireland. Celtic harp dsc05425 | David Monniaux | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
 | The four-string tenor banjo, the Irish session’s borrowed American voice. Gibson Tenor Banjos at the American Banjo Museum | Jacqke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
 | A cèilidh: social dancing, called figures, everyone welcome. Cèilidh in the Square at the 2026 Wimborne Minster Folk Festival - 55336344236 | dorsetbays | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
 | The Great Smoky Mountains, where Scots-Irish settlers carried the old tunes. Newfound Gap - October 2023 - Sarah Stierch 02 | Missvain | CC BY 4.0 |
 | The Great Smoky Mountains, where Scots-Irish settlers carried the old tunes. View of Great Smoky Mountains from Crest of Newfound Gap Road, Great Smoky Mountains National Park at North Carolina-Tennessee Border (5810389499) | Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
 | Knoxville — the Scruffy City on the Tennessee River. Sunsphere - Knoxville, Tennessee (14670633221) | Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
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Recordings and embeds
- We embed performances only through the official YouTube player, and only from the performer’s, label’s, or archive’s own channel. We never download or re-host a recording.
- If an uploader has disabled embedding, we link out instead.
- Every embed carries a visible credit line: performer, channel, and a link to the original.
- If you hold rights in something we’ve embedded and would rather we didn’t, tell us and it comes down.
Tunes and lyrics
- Traditional tunes and genuinely traditional song texts are common inheritance; we print them in full, with the collection or singer we learned them from.
- A named arranger’s or translator’s version, or a collector’s particular transcription, is that person’s work. We quote short excerpts with credit, and link to the source for the rest.
- Our ABC settings are simplified “session skeletons” written for this site; use them freely.
The legal ground for this policy — including the difference between embedding and hosting in US and UK/EU law — is written up in the project’s research notes and kept current. This page is a policy, not legal advice.