Creative Commons licenses a useful addition to critic websites?
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their websites, they might well consider a Creative Commons license.
"With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow
people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you
credit."
"To add format metadata to your document, go to the Creative Commons
license selection tool and select a format type. Update your document
with the metadata provided."
http://creativecommons.org/license/
A search engine that will show results based on these licences is at
http://search.creativecommons.org/index.jsp
"This search finds web pages with metadata indicating a Creative
Commons license or public domain dedication."
Choosing a License:
Offering your work under a Creative Commons license does not mean
giving up your copyright. It means offering some of your rights to any
taker, and only on certain conditions.
What conditions? Our site will let you mix and match such conditions
from the list of options below. There are a total of eleven Creative
Commons licenses to choose from.
* Attribution. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform
your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only
if they give you credit.
Example: Jane publishes her photograph with an Attribution license,
because she wants the world to use her pictures provided they give her
credit. Bob finds her photograph online and wants to display it on the
front page of his website. Bob puts Jane's picture on his site, and
clearly indicates Jane's authorship.
* Noncommercial. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform
your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial
purposes only.
Examples: Gus publishes his photograph with a Noncommercial license.
Camille incorporates a piece of Gus's image into a collage poster.
Camille is not allowed to sell her collage poster without Gus's
permission.
* No Derivative Works. You let others copy, distribute, display, and
perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based
upon it.
Example: Sara licenses a recording of her song with a No Derivative
Works license. Joe would like to cut Sara's track and mix it with his
own to produce an entirely new song. Joe cannot do this without Jane's
permission (unless his song amounts to fair use).
* Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only
under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
Note: A license cannot feature both the Share Alike and No Derivative
Works options. The Share Alike requirement applies only to derivative
works.
Example: Gus's online photo is licensed under the Noncommercial and
Share Alike terms. Camille is an amateur collage artist, and she takes
Gus's photo and puts it into one of her collages. This Share Alike
language requires Camille to make her collage available on a
Noncommercial plus Share Alike license. It makes her offer her work
back to the world on the same terms Gus gave her.
Taking a License:
When you've made your choices, you'll get the appropriate license
expressed in three ways:
1. Commons Deed. A simple, plain-language summary of the license,
complete with the relevant icons.
2. Legal Code. The fine print that you need to be sure the license
will stand up in court.
3. Digital Code. A machine-readable translation of the license that
helps search engines and other applications identify your work by its
terms of use.