Publish
One way to increase visibility and access to your work is to share it with an existing community. Many content platforms have already enabled CC licensing, making it easy for you to indicate the license along with other information, such as who to attribute. In addition, search engines like Google and Yahoo! will index your work as CC licensed if the metadata is properly attached.
The following are some major publishing platforms categorized by media type. You can also peruse more CC-enabled content directories. If your favorite community has not enabled CC licensing, you can usually indicate that you are using CC somewhere in an info box, or contact them and let them know it is a feature you would like to see.
To publish on your own site, see Marking/Creators.
Image
Flickr (Case Study)
- How to license your photos on Flickr.
Wikimedia Commons (Case Study)
- How to license your images on Wikimedia Commons.
Additional Resources
Audio
Internet Archive (Case Study)
- How to license your audio on the Internet Archive.
SoundCloud (Case Study)
- How to license your audio on SoundCloud.
Additional resources
- Other CC music communities
- A primer for Musicians and CC
Video
Blip.tv (Case Study)
- How to license your video on Blip.tv.
Vimeo (Case Study)
- How to license your video on Vimeo.
Additional resources
- Add your video to the Internet Archive.
- Learn more about open video at the Open Video Alliance
- A primer for Filmmakers and CC
- A (non-exhaustive) list of films under CC
Text
Scribd (Case Study)
- How to license your documents on Scribd.
- How to license your slides on SlideShare.
Blog
Wordpress (Case Study)
- How to license your blog on WordPress.
Blogger
Blogger is Google's blogging platform.
- How to license your blog on Blogger.
Additional resources
- Add your text to the Internet Archive
- Writers and CC
- EFF's Legal Guide for Bloggers