How do I get a Creative Commons license?

How do I get a Creative Commons license?

Insert a copy of the appropriate CC icon from: http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads. Add some text, e.g.: “This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License” Insert a hyperlink from your licensing text to the appropriate license.

What is the difference between Creative Commons and commercial license?

For example, an image’s license might state that you can’t modify it or use it for commercial purposes. Commercial or other licenses: These images have non-Creative Commons licenses and can be from either sites available at no charge or commercial sites that require payment.

Does Creative Commons replace copyright?

Creative Commons licenses apply to any work covered by copyright law. By using a Creative Commons license, you do not give up your copyright; you still own your work. Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright registration—they apply in addition to copyright.

Can I use Creative Commons for commercial?

CC BY: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

Is Creative Commons better than copyright?

What is one difference between copyright and Creative Commons license?

Creative Commons is an organization and a license which can take the forms of differing attributions while copyright is a law which allows owners to license their work.

How many websites use Creative Commons licenses?

Today Creative Commons licenses are used on nearly 2 billion works online across 9 million websites. The grand experiment that started about 20 years ago has been a success, including in ways unimagined by CC’s founders.

How do I get permission to use Creative Commons?

Creative Commons licenses require licensees to get permission to do any of the things with a work that the law reserves exclusively to a licensor and that the license does not expressly allow. Licensees must credit the licensor, keep copyright notices intact on all copies of the work, and link to the license from copies of the work.

What is a “machine readable” version of a Creative Commons license?

In order to make it easy for the Web to know when a work is available under a Creative Commons license, we provide a “machine readable” version of the license — a summary of the key freedoms and obligations written into a format that software systems, search engines, and other kinds of technology can understand.

What’s new in the CC 4 license?

Perhaps the biggest change introduced with the 4.0 licensee is the 30-Day correction window granted to image users who have violated the license terms and conditions. Like all Creative Commons licenses, a right to use a CC license is revoked if and when an image user does not comply with the license terms.