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A Creative Commons license means that you allow others to re-use and re-purpose your work.
In Canada, all creative works, including graphics and music, are protected by copyright law.
Copyright determines how a creator’s work can be used, and copyright protection is automatic, even if you don’t see a copyright symbol or a notice.
Creative Commons licenses are an easy way for creators to share their work while retaining copyright over it.
These licenses may allow for the sharing or modification of original works without the need to contact copyright owners, and are intended to give creators more freedom over how their work is used.
The following license descriptions are from Canadian Creative Commons Licences.
If you are using content, you will want to look for the creative commons license for the terms of use. If you are creating content, you may want to consider adding a creative commons license to your work to let people know how they can use your content.
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Attribution (CC-BY)
Attribution (CC-BY)
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. New works based on your work can be licensed however the new creator chooses.
Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
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. 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.
Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND)
Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND)
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
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 do not have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
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.
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can not change them in any way or use them commercially.
Examples of sites that allow you to search for Creative Commons images and upload your own include Flickr, Google and Wikipedia.
Examples of sites that allow you to search for Creative Commons images and upload your own include Flickr, Google and Wikipedia.
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