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Questions tagged [creative-commons]

For questions regarding the Creative Commons suite of copyright licenses, created by the organization of the same name.

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Do I have to name all editors when reusing text from Wikipedia and SE?

Wikipedia writes that You should not cite any particular author or authors for a Wikipedia article, in general. Wikipedia is collaboratively written. However, if you do need to find the list of authors of a particular article, you can check the…
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Requirements for Creative Commons Images Attribution - Website

When I use a photo licensed under Creative Commons (from Flickr) on a website I make, what is the required way to give attribution? Assuming the license allows commercial use and changes with attribution could I include the title, creator, and a…
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How do Creative Commons licences WITHOUT the Share-Alike attribute work? Can derivate works only be more restrictive, or what?

I don't understand how CC licenses without the attribute Share-Alike are supposed to work. Ok, you can "share differently", but differently how? You can be more liberal? Doesn't make sense, as this would be equivalent to putting the work into public…
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What does "No additional restrictions" of the CC-BY license mean when selling a product

I'm struggling with this part of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license: No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the…
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Can work licensed under a Creative Commons license WITHOUT ShareAlike attribute be republished UNADAPTED without the CC license?

If I license a work under Creative Commons and do not apply the ShareAlike (SA) attribute, can someone else re-publish the UNADAPTED work without the license or with another license? All I find about the ShareAlike (SA) attribute is about…
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Superceding CC-BY-NC as CC-BY by terms of license agreement

I'm using a dataset of imagery that is provided by Open Aerial Map. Their license terms are: All imagery is publicly licensed and made available through the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team's Open Imagery Network (OIN) Node. All imagery contained in…
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How does the CC ShareAlike provision affect dictionaries/data sources?

For a website, I'm using some dictionaries which were created by a community and licensed with the Creative Commons "ShareAlike" provision: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same…
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Protecting against Creative Commons revisions

I am looking to purchase digital assets for a project. The assets are loosely described as CC on the page: You can use it for commercial purposes and make edits as much as you like. However cannot distribute. Credit isn't required. I have tried…
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Do I need to retitle my book in CC-BY-SA 4.0 to release derivatives that are non-CC?

I have a novel released in CC-BY-SA 4.0, and I would like to revise it and republish the revised version under full copyright. The text on my website where the novel is currently posted reads: The text of [book title], including all chapters within…
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What is the correct format for quoting a SE site?

The Creative Commons site about the type of license that SE uses states what you need to include in the attribution. What is a format that can be used to quote all SE questions/answers/comments on all sites under this law? In summary, I’m looking…
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CC-BY-NC (or CC-BY-NC-SA) technical tutorials

This question is about using material under non-commercial licenses, rather than distributing them. There are quite a few technical tutorials out there that are licensed under non-commercial CC licenses. An example is the Git book on Git's website,…
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Does a Creative Commons license protect monetization rights of the original work?

Suppose I wanted to release a game, song, whatever under some creative commons license. (Other than CC-0, which I understand to be another name for public domain) I might do this to explicitly allow derivative works because I'm personally a fan of…
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Am I allowed to distribute Creative Commons movies to video streaming services that use DRM

Let's say I want to distribute a movie of a fireplace I found on the internet, released under CC BY 3.0 to Netflix. Am I allowed to do that? As far as I know, Netflix uses DRM. The license summary page says: No additional restrictions — You may not…
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If I use an CC by Attribution 4.0 image in my application, am I required to make my app CC-BY 4.0 too?

I want to use image that was licensed as CC by Attribution 4.0 in my application. Is there any requirements about licensing my whole application? Should it be CC-BY 4.0 too, or can I use different license?
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Comply with CC-BY-NC 4.0 while building API

I'm building an API using content shared under CC-BY-NC 4.0 license (one of Wikia's wikis). An API is basically a webpage designed to be read by machines, not by people, so no advice from CC wiki actually aplies to my case, because, in the API,…
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