Sunday, April 25, 2010

Flickr...Creative Common Licensing



Creative common licensing allows the owner of a picture to decide on the extent of which their picture can be used by the general public. On Flickr, there are four different types of licensing that are offered to the owners' of the pictures.

1. Attribution: You allow others to display and distribute your copyrighted works as long as you are given credit.


2. Noncommercial: You allow users to display your works and derivative works based upon it, but for noncommercial use only.


3. No Derivative Works: You allow users to copy and paste your items as they are,, no derivative works may be done to them.


4. Share Alike: You allow others to display derivative works, but only under the same license as your picture is under.


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