Creative Commons licenses
Public Domain (CC0). Allows you to waive all rights and place your works in the public domain.
Attribution (CC BY). Allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.
Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). Allows others to 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.
Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND). Allows others to distribute your work, commercially or non-commercially, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC). Allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially. Although others must acknowledge you and use your work non-commercially, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Attribution-NonCommecial-ShareAlike (CC NC-SA). Allows others to 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). Allows 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.
(Adapted from creativecommons.org)
License Acknowledgements
Remember TASL!
- Title
- Write the title of the piece in quotation marks.
- Author
- If there is a profile page for the author of the source you should hyperlink the author's name.
- Source
- Name the source and include a hyperlink.
- License
- Name the license type and include a hyperlink to creative commons.
In the below example the photograph, called "Skara Brea" was taken by John Allan. John Allan has a profile page at geograph.org, the source of the photograph. The photo is labeled as CC BY SA 2.0. I can include the license acknowledgement as part of a caption.
"Skara Brea" by John Allan is licensed under CC BY SA 2.0
Public domain collections
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Digital Public Library of AmericaLetters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and other resources from America's libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions
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Flickr: The CommonsPublic photography archives
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Internet archiveAudio, video, and text works that are in the public domain
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Free to Use and Reuse Images from the Library of CongressItems from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.
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Project GutenbergBooks in the public domain
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Wikimedia Commons Public DomainA listing of media items that are in the public domain
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Public Domain Reviewan online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.