Can I use anything from Creative Commons?

Can I use anything from Creative Commons?

Yes, anyone may use CC licenses for material they own, including governments and IGOs, and these institutions frequently use CC licenses on their copyrightable material. Creative Commons licenses are also machine-readable, allowing CC-licensed works to be easily discovered via search engines such as Google.

How do you cite Creative Commons?

How to Cite Creative Commons Images

1. Title: “Chocolate Chip Cookies” – make sure you put the title of the image in quotation marks.
2. Author: Kimberly Vardeman – Make sure you hyperlink the author’s name to the authors page.
3. Source: Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies – Hyperlink to original source.
4. License: CC BY 2.0.

Do Creative Commons need to be cited?

Yes, you always need to credit other people’s work. In most cases, the CC license will specify that you need to “provide attribution” (aka cite), but even when the CC license does not specify that you must provide attribution, Seneca Libraries recommends that you still do so.

Are there any Creative Commons licenses for Flickr?

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license. From St…. From St….

Where can I search for Creative Commons content?

Searching for open content is an important function enabled by our approach. You can use Google to search for Creative Commons content, look for pictures at Flickr, albums at Jamendo, and general media at spinxpress. The Wikimedia Commons, the multimedia repository of Wikipedia, is a core user of our licenses as well.

What are the features of a Creative Commons license?

All Creative Commons licenses have many important features in common. Every license helps creators — we call them licensors if they use our tools — retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work — at least non-commercially.

Who is the owner of the Flickr site?

Flickr is one of the most important repositories of openly-licensed content on the web, with over 500M images in their collection, shared by millions of photographers, libraries, archives, and museums around the world. The company was an early adopter of CC licenses, and was bought by Yahoo! and later sold to Verizon.