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:''This page gives information on attribution of CC-licensed works. For the "Attribution" license, see [[Creative Commons Attribution]]''.
  
 
All of the 6 main Creative Commons licenses have Attribution as one of the requirements. As explained by the license deeds, to fulfill the requirements of Attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
 
All of the 6 main Creative Commons licenses have Attribution as one of the requirements. As explained by the license deeds, to fulfill the requirements of Attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
  
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== How exactly do we give attribution to CC-licensed work? ==
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Attribution is often expressed as '''BY''' when abbreviating license names.
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For examples, see [[marking]].
 
  
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=== Attribution to a site or publisher ===
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== How to give attribution: ==
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* For basic examples, see [[Marking/Users]] (Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licensing: Users).
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* For examples involving HTML/RDFa metadata, see [[ccREL]].
  
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Licenses for a site may give attribution to the site, rather than to the individual contributors.("The winner is CC-By 2.5, with the attribution to the Wiki." [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2005-September/000329.html <nowiki>[Wikinews-l]</nowiki> The Wikinews Licensure Poll is closed], Sep 2005.)
 
  
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If you are the author or rights-holder of original content, and wish to be attributed for that on a site that practices such a policy, then:
 
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* it should be published elsewhere under a suitable [[license]]
 
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* the content placed on the wiki should have an attribution, saying that the page or section contains content from the specified source. Future editors of the page should not remove this notice while significant portions of text remain on the page.<ref>How much text is "significant"? A single sentence is not a copyright violation (source?) so presumably more than one sentence. Should 2 sentences or more be the rule of thumb? What if they are long, paragraph-length sentences?</ref>
 
  
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:'''''Note''': This initial contribution is by an editor who is not a lawyer - these are just ideas and need further references.''
 
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=== Attribution to a URL ===
 
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See [[ccREL]].
 
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Latest revision as of 22:15, 26 January 2010

This page gives information on attribution of CC-licensed works. For the "Attribution" license, see Creative Commons Attribution.

All of the 6 main Creative Commons licenses have Attribution as one of the requirements. As explained by the license deeds, to fulfill the requirements of Attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

Attribution is often expressed as BY when abbreviating license names.

How to give attribution:

  • For basic examples, see Marking/Users (Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licensing: Users).
  • For examples involving HTML/RDFa metadata, see ccREL.
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