Thursday, December 9, 2010

Creative Commons Licensing

When choosing an image from Flickr you may notice that the images offered are under different forms of licenses.  Each license provides an explanation of the terms of usage of the images (works).  These include the following:
Attribution...others may copy, display, distribute and perform your work-as long as they give you cred
Attribution-NoDerivs...others may copy, display, distribute, and perform your work as long as it is verbatim copies of your work
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs...you may display, distribute, copy, and perform your work, as long as it is verbatim copies for non-commercial purposes
Attribution-NonCommercial...others may display, distribute, copy, and perform your work along with derivatives of your work, as long as it is for non-commercial purposes
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike...you may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work for non-commercial purposes
Attribution-ShareAlike...you may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

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