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+++ b/docs/book_appendix.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Appendix
    glossary
    basics/101-136-cheatsheet
    acknowledgements
+   licenses
 
 .. raw:: latex
 
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
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--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ Appendix
    contributing
    teaching
    acknowledgements
+   licenses
    intro/user_types
    OHBMposter
    usecases/openneuro
diff --git a/docs/licenses.rst b/docs/licenses.rst
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/licenses.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+.. index:: copyright, licenses
+
+Copyright and licenses
+----------------------
+
+This handbook is made available under the terms of the `Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-SA)`_.
+The copyright holders for the book content are the respective individual contributors of particular content, as recorded in the version history of the handbook's Git repository.
+
+This book may contain copyrighted and/or trademarked materials, the use of which may not have been specifically authorized by the respective owner.
+These are included for educational purposes in an effort to explain issues relevant to decentralized data management and other topics covered in this book.
+We believe that this constitutes a "fair use" of the materials as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
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+They do not sponsor or endorse the contents, materials, or processes discussed within this book.
+
+The remainder of this sections amends the general copyright and license declaration of the book with additional information on used 3rd-party materials.
+
+.. the following content descriptions shall also work in an offline/paper
+   context, hence need to use references to book structures rather then
+   deep-links to some file content
+
+unDraw illustrations
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The handbook includes numerous illustrations obtained from Katerina Limpitsouni's https://undraw.co project, covered by the following terms:
+
+   Copyright 2023 Katerina Limpitsouni
+
+   All images, assets and vectors published on unDraw can be used for free.
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+
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+
+YODA illustration
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The "YODA" cartoon used in chapter :ref:`yoda` is derived from https://openclipart.org/detail/227445/yoda, which was made available under `CC0`_ terms.
+
+.. _Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-SA): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
+.. _CC0: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0