Recommended practices for attribution
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Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licensing: Users
When reusing a CC-licensed work, either as pure sharing or as a derivative work, it is your legal obligation to include what license is being used, as well as obeying by the license conditions provided by the licensor (content owner/creator). From our FAQ:
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If you are using a work licensed under one of our six core licenses, then unless the licensor has said otherwise the proper way of providing credit when you are making a verbatim use is:
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You also need to provide the URL for the Creative Commons license selected with each copy of the work that you make available.
Example
- This work, "My Awesome Photo," is © 2009 Greg Grossmeier and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
If you are making a derivative use of a Work licensed under one of our six core licenses, in addition to the above you need a credit identifying the use of the Work in the derivative, ie. “This is a Finnish translation of the [original work] by [author]” or “Screenplay based on [original work] by [author].”
Crediting in Video
Adding the appropriate credit information to you videos could be as simple as a list of the works used at the end with their associated license. Eg:
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This video features the following songs- “Desaprendere (Treatment)” by fourstones, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. “Some Other Song” by fourstones, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. |
If possible it is desirable to make the title, author, and license a link the viewer can follow.
Crediting in Text
A similar format to the Video example above would be sufficient with the added ability to create links for text available online.
Crediting in Audio
If available online provide a "credit list" of material used and follow the above Text guidelines.
Crediting in Images
If available online provide a "credit list" of material used and follow the above Text guidelines.
Download Markers
- For images & documents:
- For audio:
- For video:
More Technical
We also have a document about marking works that is more technical.
External Guides and Fact Sheets
- Creative Commons Australia's Attributing Creative Commons Material (pdf) (created for the Pooling Ideas competition)
- Molly Kleinman's excellent, easy to read article CC HowTo #1: How to Attribute a Creative Commons licensed work - includes illustrative examples.
- How to Attribute a Creative Commons Licensed Work article on wikiHow, based on Molly Kleinman's article.
