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What are Creative Commons Licenses? How to choose the best for you

It's time to learn about Creative Commons Licenses

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What are Creative Commons? and how you can use and benefit.

Creative Commons (CC) is an internationally active non-profit organization that provides free licenses for creators to use when making their work available to the public.

These licenses help the creator to give permission for others to use the work in advance under certain conditions.

Protect yourself from Legal battles when using other people's creations without their permission.

Before you use any video you find on YouTube or somewhere else and some images from a Google search, understand the implications of the different licenses allowed by the content creator.

Check out more info here at Creative Commons.

Creative Commons examples

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  • Is Creative Commons copyright free?

  • Governments and intergovernmental organizations

  • Books

  • Comics

  • Educational resources

  • Games

  • Video games

  • Images and photos

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  • Music

  • News

  • Knowledge, research and science

  • Databases and data

  • Technology, blueprints and recipes

  • Video and film

  • Websites

Is Creative Commons copyright free?

Creative Commons allows you to legally use “some rights reserved” music, movies, images, and other content for free.

Creative Commons offers free copyright licenses that anyone can use to mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.

What does Creative Commons mean on YouTube?

Creative Commons licenses give a standard way for content creators to grant someone else permission to use their work.

YouTube allows creators to mark their videos with a Creative Commons CC BY license so that other creators can reuse their work subject to the terms of the license determined.

Creative Commons and Royalty free are the same?

Creators can sell licensing to their work many times over.

Therefore, unlike Creative Commons public domain licenses, royalty-free works are not part of the public domain.

Royalty-free works are for use only by the licensor and can't be transferred.

Can I use Creative Commons images for free?

Public Domain, Creative Commons (CC), or GNU Public Licenses allow free usage of images and photos, and the license status makes them seem safe to use.

The reality is, that using these kinds of images on your website or online publication can be very risky, legal-wise.

How do I acknowledge Creative Commons?

When attributing an image, we recommend the TASL model:

  • Title: Image title

  • Author: Creator’s name

  • Source: URL where the image is hosted (plus optional link to author profile)

  • License: Type of Creative Commons license it is available under, including a link to the relevant license.

How Do I Get Creative Commons images?

How to Use Creative Commons Search on Google.

Navigate to Google Images and select "Tools" on the right, just below the search bar.

In the options that appear, click "Usage rights."

Select the license that suits your needs in the drop-down menu that appears.

Can I benefit from Creative Commons?

Using Creative Commons licenses, rather than writing your website-specific license, ensures compatibility of downstream works.

Ex: content on your site can be remixed with content worldwide using CC.

It also saves you the time and expense of generating your own specific set of licenses.

Creative Commons license types

The six main CC licenses are comprised of various combinations of its four conditions:

Attribution CC BY

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This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.

This is the most accommodating of the licenses offered.

Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

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Attribution Share Alike CC BY-SA

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This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under identical terms.

This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open-source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.

This is the license used by Wikipedia and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.

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Attribution NoDerivs CC BY-ND

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This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

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Attribution Non-Commercial CC BY-NC

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This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

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Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike CC BY-NC-SA

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This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under identical terms.

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Attribution Non-Commercial NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND

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This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

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Jose Mesquita

Jose is an online Entrepreneur, member of an elite community of highly successful internet entrepreneurs determined to positively impact the world - help millions break free from mediocrity and create the good life they've always wanted. We assist people build highly successful, location-independent online business systems that can provide unlimited income potential and time freedom and enable them to turn their dreams into reality faster than anything else they've tried. @AffiliateRevenueMultiplier

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