The Nobel Foundation used a CC-licensed photo of Obama to accompany its Peace Prize announcement:
Ivan Chew
its Peace Prize announcement:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/
The text accompanying the image says: "Photo: Pete Souza, Obama-Biden
Transition Project, licensed by Attribution Share Alike 3.0"
About the "Attribution Share Alike" license:
"This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even
for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their
new creations under the identical terms. This license is often
compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on
yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow
commercial use."
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
ivan
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Harish Pillay
> its Peace Prize announcement:
> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/
>
> The text accompanying the image says: "Photo: Pete Souza, Obama-Biden
> Transition Project, licensed by Attribution Share Alike 3.0"
>
> About the "Attribution Share Alike" license:
> "This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even
> for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their
> new creations under the identical terms. This license is often
> compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on
> yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow
> commercial use."
> http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
Fantastic. Thanks for pointing this out, Ivan.
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