The idea is essentially to allow an author of copyrighted work to share their work in ways more open than traditional copyrights.
Essentially Creative Commons is a way to license your work in a way that allows you to choose which descriptions you want to put on things like redistribution, derivative works, attributing the author... and if you want you can literally declare that your work is public domain.
Yes, you can use an image with a Creative Commons license for your project as long as you follow the terms of the specific license it is under.
The most accommodating, or flexible, Creative Commons License is the attribution license. It allows for anyone to use, distribute, or build upon an existing work as long as you give credit to the original creator. In total, there are six different Creative Commons Licenses. The Creative Commons website provides more information about the use and restrictions for each license type.
To properly cite a Creative Commons image in your work, you should include the title of the image, the creator's name, the source where you found the image, the type of Creative Commons license it has, and a link to the license terms.
Creative commons is a non-profit organization located in Mountain view California. The latest licenses that Creative commons is offering is the Attribution license.
Creative Commons
When you have created a work, you may attach a Creative Commons license to it, which allows certain broad categories of use without further agreements. See the link below for more information.ooo
CC REL is the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language. It is recommended by the Creative Commons in order to describe how license information can be described and attached to works using RDF.
Creative Commons licenses do not affect exceptions and limitations to copyright laws as this was already taken into account when the Creative Commons license was drafter. You can find more information from the Creative Commons section of the Wikipedia website.
A Creative Commons license allows others to use, share, and modify your work for free, with certain conditions. A commercial license, on the other hand, typically requires payment for the use of the work and may have more restrictions on how it can be used.
Creative Commons was created in 2001.
Yes, but it is made available under a very broad Creative Commons license.
To cite Creative Commons images properly, include the creator's name, the title of the image, the license type (such as CC BY 4.0), and a link to the original image source.