These FAQs are designed to provide a better understanding of Creative Commons, our licenses, and our other legal and technical tools. They provide basic
...may be used interchangeably to refer to the person or entity applying a CC license.
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...ns. For more information on using CC tools or works offered under Creative Commons licenses, consult the [[Frequently_Asked_Questions|Frequently Asked Questio
...below is a general description of differences and similarities between the license versions, for general informational purposes only. Consult your own attorn
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...transparently handle CC metadata for you (you should only have to select a license), do not attempt to do it yourself.
License metadata for web pages is published with the content it describes. If some
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...ication like Photoshop to mark files as re-usable under a Creative Commons license.
...[[XMP]] template which may be used to mark documents with Creative Commons license information.
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...g XMP metadata." Note that even when embedded with XMP metadata, Creative Commons recommends a licensed document include a visible copyright notice; [[Markin
The Creative Commons [http://www.creativecommons.org/license/ licensing process] offers a XMP template which may be used to mark files w
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...web. When you select a license in our [http://creativecommons.org/license license chooser], you are given a snippet of HTML that contains RDFa. Sites like [h
By using RDFa, Creative Commons is helping build the semantic web. Here are some frequently asked questions
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...the different views about Creative Commons and issues related to Creative Commons. If you know of an article or comment that is not represented here, please
...oper, Cheryl Foong & Brian Fitzgerald, 'Open access to judgments: Creative Commons licences and the Australian courts' (2012) 19(1) ''Murdoch University Law R
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...n the fear of loosing their intellectual property. The Developing Nations license grants the freedoms to copy, distribute, display, make derivatives of and p
...ially in developing countries where need is great. The Developing Nations License permits a work to be used in developing nations and encourages authors to c
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...on the fear of loosing their intellectual property. The Developing Nations license grants the freedoms to copy, distribute, display, make derivatives of and p
...cially in developing countries where need is great. The Developing Nations License permits a work to be used in developing nations and encourages authors to c
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= Creative Commons Version 3.0 Licenses — A Brief Explanation =
===''by Mia Garlick, General Counsel Creative Commons''===
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Creative Commons is turning 5, and to celebrate we're inviting the CC Community worldwide to
Anyone interested in or who already knows the young Creative Commons anywhere in the world.
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'''CC+''' denotes the combination of a '''CC official license (unmodified and verbatim)''' + '''another separate and independent agreemen
...f permissions that have not been modified or customized but reproduces the license verbatim. The plus (+) signifies that all of those same permissions are gr
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...al) or the abbreviation (e.g. CC BY-NC). In both cases the full URL to the license should be included. A copyright notice stating the author(s), date, and cop
...rks should ideally include the CC icons in addition to the full URI to the license. See [[Marking Image]] to learn how to make your own mark.
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** <del>License chooser api ironing out (http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-devel/2007-J
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...censes. This page describes how to begin with a license URI and map it to license properties.
...requirements of a license. Permissions declare a permission given by the license, above and beyond what default copyright law allows. Prohibitions prohibit
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...litik posted [http://netzpolitik.org/2007/public-project-lead-von-creative-commons-deutschland/ an informative write-up] of the event. (German)
Map: OpenStreetMap.org (CC BY-SA)
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*implementing feedback into 3.0 (since Feb/Mar)
== Introduction of Version 3.0 ==
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'''CC Birthday Cake from CC Philippines'''. CC-BY 3.0 PH by Berne Guerrero
...on CC PH's blog] and [http://www.philippinecommons.org/2007/12/14/creative-commons-philippine-jurisdictional-licenses-introduced/ Press Release]
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...enhance the search experience. Metadata about the resources, including the license and subject information available, are exposed in the search result set. We
This section outlines some of the [[RDFa]] metadata Creative Commons is collecting for the DiscoverEd project and gives some examples of using R
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...tion describing how license information may be described using RDF and how license information may be attached to works.
ccREL is described in ''[[Media:Ccrel-1.0.pdf|ccREL: The Creative Commons Rights Expression Language]]'' (pdf), published March 3, 2008. An overview
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The [[Creative Commons wiki]] terms are what you see when you [[edit page]]s in [[this wiki]]:
...nsidered to be released under the [[CC-by|Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License]] (see [[CreativeCommons:Copyrights]] for details). If you don't want your
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...must be licensed the same way. This is in contrast to the Attribution-only license from CC where a derivative could be released under full copyright restricti
...r BY-NC-SA version 2.0 or higher can be used with any later version of the license. For specifics see the chart below.
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== The 2012-13 Creative Commons Research agenda ==
...of open content to understand how their actions contribute to the broader commons.
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* What happened since Dubrovnik - New Jurisdiction Projects / Version 3.0
* General remarks regarding license incompatibility - Dr. Lucie Guibault
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|Quote=Creative Commons is great for indies like me because we can still make what money off of our
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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==Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses==
[http://creativecommons.org Creative Commons] is a not-for-profit organization that has created and serves as a steward
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...rmore, it can be modified fairly easily to run "headlessly" and insert the license XMP into PDF files automatically.
[[Image:Pdf-license-manager-screenshot.png]]
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|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
== License Usage ==
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|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
== License Usage ==
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...Coulton is an independent/unsigned singer-songwriter who utilises Creative Commons licences to help promote his music via free downloads.
|License short name=CC BY-NC
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...Cunningham’s choreography for his solo dance "Loops" under a CC BY-NC-SA license.
...he score under a Creative Commons (non-commercial/attribution/share-alike) license, so that it can be more closely studied and remixed in the future. For an a
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|Quote=We selected CC Attribution 3.0 Unported license because we want content to spread as far and wide as possible and we want t
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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|Quote=Creative Commons gives me the added assurance that I will be credited for my images, and it
...s.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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|License_short_name=CC BY, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-SA, copyright
|Quote=Creative Commons is much needed ammunition in the battle against digital theft or “borrowi
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|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
== License Usage ==
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|Quote=Creative Commons licensed music allows for a remix culture that is an example of the beauty
== License Usage ==
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...sh, and be paid for their music made available for download under Creative Commons and the Free Art licences.
|License_short_name=CC BY, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-SA, various
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...rground New Zealand music and other music of interest under local Creative Commons licences.
...g they can look for in the meantime isn’t profit, but exposure. Creative Commons licenses allow your music to spread furthest.
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...tional community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places”.
...ion 3.0 Unported license and the CC Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported license - these licenses, along with the option to reserve all rights offer our mem
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...nd artistic release made available to fans ‘for free’ under a Creative Commons licence.
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
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|License short name=CC BY-NC-ND
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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|License short name=various
...mmons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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...ls such as Creative Commons licenses that enable easy sharing and reuse of creative works.
...n the strong foundation of traditional copyright law. Simply put, Creative Commons licenses allow the shift from “all rights reserved” to “some rights r
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...Cars is an independent band who licenses all of their music under Creative Commons.
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
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|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
== License Usage ==
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...rs uploading and sharing music use the Creative Commons 4.0 By Share Alike license. Tribe members are free to sign up, share as much music as they want under
...r exposure. Based on the international Creative Commons 3.0 By-Share Alike license a legal framework was developed from scratch.
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...ead team-up to offer tools and data to be available under Creative Commons license.
...lable under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License."
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...ar and concise manner the most common questions people have about Creative Commons. If you don't find the answer to your question here, please see '''[[Frequ
...forcement.3F | Can CC give legal advice about its licenses or help with CC license enforcement?]]
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|Quote=Any regular person can explore their creative passions and participate in our greater culture. Supraterranean.com is an e
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
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...raphic location of an IP address, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
[[Category:License and CCPlus]]
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...rses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
...will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
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|Quote=The music market is so saturated and Creative Commons is another way we can reach more people with our music. I like it how our i
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/
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|status=3.0
|social=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Creative-Commons-%D0%B2-%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8/202975769741456
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...laboration which has since swelled to over 150 active members working with creative, non-partisan projects to build awareness and tolerance in Malaysia.
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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|License short name=CC BY, CC BY-SA
|License_short_name=CC BY, CC BY-SA
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A ''sample pool'' is a site that exposes Creative Commons licensed media and optionally accepts 'trackback' style notifications of re
1) If you have a plugin or some other mechanism that adds a <*.license
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|logourl=http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/9/98/Creative-commons-guatemala.jpg
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: 2.1 - The Creative Commons Network launched October 15 with the fall fundraising campaign. The CC Netw
...projects such as Wikipedia to migrate to the CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
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...concerns about the information provided below, about CC0 or about Creative Commons licenses and tools generally.
...ting the public an unconditional, irrevocable, non exclusive, royalty free license to use the work for any purpose.
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|license=Creative Commons by-sa 3.0
|cclicensed=Creative Commons by-sa 3.0
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=== Image License URL ===
...he image available under? EX. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/de/
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'''Latam Commons 2008 – CC Day Outcomes'''
...ities that were shared among the CC representatives who attended the Latam Commons 2008 meeting in Santiago, Chile, from Nov 19-21, 2008. There was one whole
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|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
|License_short_name=CC BY-SA
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|License short name=copyright, CC BY-NC-SA
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ph/
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|License_short_name=CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-SA
...mmons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/,http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
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...ко наиболее частых вопросов людей о Creative Commons.'''
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|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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below you find the Pilot outline as agreed between Creative Commons, Creative Commons France and SACEM. for more information please see the [[SACEM-FAQ]]
==SACEM – Creative Commons Pilot==
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Creative Commons Netherlands has translated the CC 4.0 license suite, and provided a translation of CC0 legal code.
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Many thanks to all who contributed to the localization of the license suite.
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|social=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Creative-Commons-FR-officiel/141722085902494?v=wall
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...the following version. [http://creativecommons.org/choose/?jurisdiction=de License your work] under these licenses, or [http://creativecommons.org/choose choo
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|License_short_name=CC BY-SA
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/th/
...ame=copyright, PD, CC BY, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-SA
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...sentantes de la prensa escrita han comenzado a usar las licencias Creative Commons. A continuación, una aproximación a los casos de El Ciudadano, Publimetro
|Quote=Con Creative Commons, los medios de comunicación se pueden retroalimentar fortaleciendo la cali
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|License_short_name=CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND
...s/by-nc-sa/3.0/hk/deed.zh_HK, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/hk/deed.zh_HK,
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The main idea of this feature is to allow users to set a license for an individual file that they are uploading. This is done during the ac
...ge the license on specific uploads while having a default Creative Commons license.
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...ploadExample|Single File Upload Choice]] to enable users to have a default license for all media, but on special occasions have the ability to change specific
...d [[LicenseChooser.js]] provides a lightweight method for integrating this license selection into web applications. The widget is used by TypePad and [[WpLice
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...d in San Francisco to increase efficiency and reduce costs. International license porting and adoption will be merged into the General Counsel's office. The
The board voted to retain the Science Commons and ccLearn advisory committees but to direct their advisories to the CEO a
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Using [[RDFa]] and [[CcREL|ccREL]] to add metadata about your Creative Commons licensed works will enable machines (search engines, web browsers, etc) to
...Google, to limit image results to only images licensed under a specific CC license.
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|Description=Runes of Gallidon is a fantasy world of where the creative community tells a collaborative narrative through the medium of their choic
...oosing Creative Commons for our license did more than make it easy for the creative community to remix/reuse each other's ideas when generating new works for R
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== License Usage ==
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...ry/12267 Whitehouse.gov’s 3rd Party Content Under CC-BY] (2009) Creative Commons, at 20 March 2009. </ref>
...This initiative works in accordance with the idea of using the Creative Commons licence, and building a democracy based on true public participation, and w
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This page describes the issues which embedding license metadata attempts to resolve and basic steps for implementation.
...ensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license" with a link to the license. There are common examples of this on many web media hosting services such
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|License_short_name=CC BY, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-SA
...s/by-nc-sa/3.0/hk/deed.zh_HK, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/hk/deed.zh_HK,
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|License short name=CC BY, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-SA
...s/by-nc-sa/3.0/hk/deed.zh_HK, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/hk/deed.zh_HK,
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|License short name=CC BY-NC-SA
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/hk/deed.zh_HK
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== License Usage ==
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...InMediaHK wants the articles to reach as many people as possible. Creative Commons helps us to distribute our works.
|License_short_name=CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND
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...he world know? Here are some examples of how to mark your work with the CC license. Note: If you want to know how to attribute other creators' CC licensed mat
==How to use the CC License Chooser==
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...icenses is attribution: crediting the author and noting the source and the license. Generally speaking, attribution must reasonably include all relevant infor
...g_your_work_with_a_CC_license our guide on how to mark your work with a CC license].
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...rg/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/hk/, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/hk/
== License Usage ==
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...eative Commons]] license, sometimes by major publishers (showing that a CC license can be used while making a profit).
The idea of this table is to let you sort by fields including license type and publisher.
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|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/
...a Centre (PMC) was established by AUT University’s Faculty of Design and Creative Industries in Auckland, New Zealand in 2007 and is the only media research
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== License Usage ==
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...s of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project.
...npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/sear
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|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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...ensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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License short name: CC BY
...ut movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques. I have deliberately chose
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