If do you want to share the content, the photos your, the videos or your articles with all people, there are several species licenses offered by This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. Creative Commons that you can use free. This article will help you to choose the permission which matches better to the needs your.
Understand how a Creative Commons license (CC) affects your copyright.
Most people believe that by using a license Creative Commons, lose their rights to their work, that the work no longer belongs to them, and that they will not be able to afford it. This is not true. When you use a Creative Commons license, you allow others to use your work under certain circumstances, but you remain the copyright owner of the project.
Let's say you have a photo that you distribute under the CC-BY-NC license: This basically means that people can use it as long as they refer to you as the creator of the project only for non-commercial purposes. A non-commercial blog can use it on its homepage. Then a company sees it and contacts you about using your photo in one of their brochures, and wants to pay you so they can use it. License CC-BY-NC with which you distribute the photo, does not prevent you from being paid for the commercial use of the photo by the company.
Understand your commitment.
If you use it a CC license for your work, you can always do it change. But, if someone used it your work under these terms, before they change, you can not them «get it back". Let's go back to the example of photography: If you change the permission into a «All rights reserved» no one can use your image with permission CC from now on. But the blogger who used it, will continue to use it with permission Creative Commons, because with this license you distribute it at that time.
Decide how you want to your name is mentioned.
Know why you should use a permission Creative Commons.
Some reasons to prefer a license Creative Commons instead of "All Rights Reserved":
- The possibility of the license to give clear description of the rights of the creator and of users
- Η ability to give forms of licensing that are legally proven
- The possibility to be registered your content with most of them machines search που support CC licenses
- If you choose a CC license, you will be able to be sure, that name you are reported everywhere and that all derivative works (if you choose the term similar distribution SA) which are based on work/labour your, published under the same conditions.
Examine your choices carefully.
Each license has its own terms and conditions:
- You want to allow modifications to your project; To be able to modify your project means that others can correct, update, improve, and customize their content. This modifying feature ensures that your content is used more and more often because the audience will not be limited by how it will be shared and reused If you decide to allow modifications, you can also select the term "Similar Distribution (SA)«. This means that any amendment must be published with the same license. Be aware, however, that it is very difficult for other content creators to reuse "similarly distributed" works, as they like to mix open source works that have different licenses.
- Do you want to allow others to copy, distribute, and replicate your work - and derived works based on it - but only for non-commercial purposes? Then you should also select the term "Non-Commercial Use» (NC)
- Do you want your name on every copy or modified version of your project content? The term "Creator Report »(BY) forces users to report to you, and it becomes a very good tool to promote your name and work.
- Do you want to allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license that is the same as your work permit? This means you must also choose the term «Similar Distribution (SA)
- Do you want to allow others to copy, distribute, project, and perform only faithful copies of your work, without doing no change or derivative work; Then you need to add the term Όnot Derivative Works "(ND)
Select it license which matches better σyour purposes.
Just you are confident about the terms you want to apply (ή not you want to apply), you can choose the permission which reflects better your needs. Below are the six ladies CC licenses:
4.0 Creator Report (CC-BY)
This license allows others to redistribute, modify, modify, and create derivative works of your own, even commercially, subject to reference to you as the originator of the original. It is one of the most helpful licenses available. It is recommended to maximize the diffusion and use of the licensed material.
Creator Report - Similar Distribution 4.0 (CC-BY-SA)
This license allows others to adapt, modify, and create derivatives of your work, provided they credit you as the creator and make their new creations available on exactly the same terms. This license is often likened to free and "copyleft" open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will have the terms of the original license, so derivatives will be allowed commercial use. This license is used by Wikipedia and is recommended for genres that benefit from embedding content as is done in Wikipedia and similar licensed works.
Developer Report - Non-Commercial Use 4.0 (CC-BY-NC)
This license allows others to make covers, modify and create derivative works of your own, but without commercial use. Although their new works must recognize you and remain non-commercial, they must not be licensed under the same conditions.
Creator Report - No Derivative Works 4.0 (CC-BY-ND)
This license allows redistribution, for commercial or non-commercial use, provided you are referred to as the creator and your work remains unchanged as a whole.
Creator Report - Non-Commercial Use - Similar Distribution 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-SA)
This license allows others to make adaptations, modifications and derivatives of your own works without commercial use, provided they refer to you and have their new creations on exactly the same terms.
Creator Report - Non-Commercial Use - No Derivative Works 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND)
This license is the most restrictive of 6 Master Licenses, allowing others to access your work and share it with others if they refer to you, but they can not change it in any way or use it for commercial use .
