What’s the Difference Between Copyright and Creative Commons?

Creative Commons is actually a license that is applied to a work that is protected by copyright. It’s not separate from copyright, but instead is a way of easily sharing copyrighted work.
Because copyright is magical, a good chunk of what’s created is automatically protected by copyright. Copyright confers some pretty heavy duty protections so that others don’t use your work without your permission.
Not everyone needs or wants all those protections. But if they spent the time to license the work each and every time someone was interested in using it, they’d spend a lot of time and money on letting people use their work.

A copyright protects all original work that you create and capture in “a tangible medium of expression” (a written copy, a data file, prison tattoo, etc…), and it is magic.
A copyright is created and protects your work as soon as your work is created. Instant legal protection! If you register your copyright with the Copyright Office you can get more protections, but registration isn’t necessary to copyright your work.

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Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND

Hello everyone,

in today's post we would like to focus on another C.C. licence which is CC BY-ND 4.0. 

Our new licence basically means that we are allowed for redistribution of the picture or other media, for commercial and non commercial reasons as long as we pass it to the internet unchanged with credits to the author. Picture under this licence can't be change and modify, we need to post it on another website as the author posted.

Please remember how this CC Licence look like, so then surfing on internet while looking for a nice pictures to post on your blog, will be much easer!

And as usually let's take an example, a picture of our beautiful city Toronto!

College street and Sneaky Dees restaurant by Kasia

You can without any problems use our picture for your own website or blog, but you need to remember you are not allowed to change it (i.ex in Photoshop program) and you are obligated to mention the author of this picture in credits.

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

What can Creative Commons do for me?

If you want to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work you’ve created, you should consider publishing it under a Creative Commons license. CC gives you flexibility (for example, you can choose to allow only non-commercial uses) and protects the people who use your work, so they don’t have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the conditions you have specified.
If you’re looking for content that you can freely and legally use, there is a giant pool of CC-licensed creativity available to you. There are hundreds of millions of works — from songs and videos to scientific and academic material — available to the public for free and legal use under the terms of our copyright licenses, with more being contributed every day.

Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives

Hello everyone,

today we would like to present the most strict of all licences, that basically only allows you to download work to share with others (with credits).

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

While using a picture or media under  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International:

I can

- SHARE - for free of course I need to provide credits

I can't

- MODIFY - at any manner

- DISTRIBUTE - even if it is not for commercial reasons

As an example let's take a picture, which presents one of the streets in Toronto

Queen Street, photo by Kasia CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

SO if you want to use this photo on your website or blog (without any changes of course) you can credit this photo like:

"Queen Street" by Kasia is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Toronto 3D Sign (Night)

Properly-attributed works

In this post, we'd like to show you some examples of proper attributions for Creative Commons works.

"TASL" - Title, Author, Source, License

• Title - What is the name of the material?A title was provided for the material
• Author - Who owns the material? Name the author or authors of the material in question.
• Source - Where can I find it? Since you somehow accessed the material, you know where to find it. Provide the source of the material so others can, too.
• License - How can I use it? You are obviously using the material for free thanks to the CC license, so make note of it. Don't just say the material is Creative Commons, because that says nothing about how the material can actually be used. Remember that there are six different CC licenses; which one is the material under? Name and provide a link to it, eg. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for CC BY.  → If the licensor included a license notice with more information, include that as well.

 LOOK AT THIS EXAMPLES:

  Nicholas Nico Valenton - Toronto 3D Sign (Night)
by  (CC BY 2.0

Because:

Title? "Toronto 3D Sign (Night)"

Author? "Nicholas Nico Valenton" - linked to his profile page

Source? "https://www.flickr.com/photos/79137504@N05/" - linked to original Flickr page

License? "CC BY 2.0" - linked to license deed

This is a good attribution for material from multiple sources

Because:

Title? Specific works are named, eg. "Box-and-whisker Plots"
Author? Different authors noted for the different works.
Source? Original materials are linked for each work
License? The different licenses (Creative Commons Attribution for Collaborative Statistics and Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike for the Khan Academy video) are spelled out and linked for each work

Post 1 - CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)

Hello everyone,

we are group of students and as a part of our experience from Digital Citizenship class we would like to share with you some important informations about Creative Commons licences.

We know that internet is a place with billions of pictures and other medias. They are there just for us, but can we use them on our own ? Can we re-post them on our blog and websites ? Can we  change them ?

If you don't know how internet law works like, you should have a look on our articles.

As an example we decided to use a few pictures from our beautiful city Toronto !

CN Tower between two buildings - CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)

Above picture of CN Tower is under  CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) licence, which is one of the best ones. While being this sign you can easily and without any troubles use above picture as author (myself) I' m waiving all of my rights to the work under copyright law. You can easily copy, modify and distribute my work even for commercial purposes without asking me if you can do it.