the Six Licenses
Attribution
CC-BY
This license allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work both commercially and non-commercially, as long as you are credited.
Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
This license allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work both commercially and non-commercially. You must be credited and they must license their work under the same terms.
Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND
This license allows others to distribute your work, however changes may not be made. You must be credited.
Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
This license allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially. Under the condition that you acknowledge their work. You must be credited.
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
This license allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially. Under the condition that you acknowledge their work and they must license their work under the same terms. You must be credited.
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
This license allows others to distribute your work with no changes non-commercially. You must be credited.
Applying a CC license
To apply a CC license for online material: Choose your license. In the ‘License Features’ box, checking all the boxes that apply. Then, look in the ‘Selected Licence’ box, and the subtitle will read what kind of license you have chosen. Follow the instructions, and copy the HTML code into your webpage. To apply a CC license for offline material or third-party platforms without built-in Creative Commons capabilities: Choose your license, then mark your work with the following text: “This work is licensed under the Creative Commons [insert description] License. To view a copy of the license, visit [insert url]” Please note that many media platforms (such as Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud) have built-in Creative Commons capabilities, letting users mark their material with a CC license through their account settings.
Seeing if Others have Used a CC License
The license information is usually placed in the footer. Otherwise, you may have to contact the owner to ask about their Creative Commons site. Most third-party platform, have a built-in Creative Commons license.
An Ideal Attribution
An Ideal Attribution follows this format: "Title" by "Author" is licensed under licence. which provides all the neccisary information.