Creative Commons Licensing (3.0 unported)
What is Creative Commons?
Attribution
Attribution – Share Alike
Attribution – No Derivatives
Attribution – Non Commercial
Attribution – Non Commercial – Share Alike
Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivatives
Creative commons is a non-profit organisation that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. They have produced standardized licensing for images and other creative works that work alongside copyright.
By using a CC (creative commons) license creators/owners can distribute their work with less restrictions then are normally associated with full copyright, so instead of ‘full rights reserved’ CC allows for ‘Some rights reserved. They may allow people, for example, to copy and distribute works as long as they are attributed to their creator or copyright owner.
There are different grades of CC licensing allowing owners to choose how their works are distributed and which rights are reserved.
These licensing grades are as follows.
(CC 3.0 Unported)
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the creators/owners work, even commercially, as long as they are credited for the original creation.
This is the most accommodating of licenses offered.
You are free:
- to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- To Remix — to adapt the work
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
Under the following conditions:
style=”text-align:justify;”>Attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
For more information see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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 the identical terms. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
You are free:
- to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to make commercial use of the work
Under the following conditions:
Share Alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
For more information see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
You are free:
- to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to make commercial use of the work
Under the following conditions:
No Derivative Works – You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
For more information see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
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.
You are free:
- to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to Remix — to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
Non Commercial – You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
For more information see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Attribution – Non Commercial – Share Alike
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 the identical terms.
You are free:
- to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to Remix — to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
Share Alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
For more information see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivatives
This license is the most restrictive of Creative Commons 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.
You are free:
- to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
Under the following conditions:
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
For more information see:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
All creative commons license badges used in this site are owned by the Creative Commons Organisation and have been released to the public under creative commons Attribution License 3.0
See http://creativecommons.org/about for further information.
