Anatomy of a Creative Commons license
How do Creative Commons licenses work? While our last posts gave an introduction to the context of Creative Commons more broadly, this one will dive in to the details of the Creative Commons (CC) licenses available. With a good knowledge of what the licenses are and how they work, readers will be equipped to interpret CC licenses applied to other works they may wish to reuse, and begin to consider the suitability of Creative Commons licenses for their own work. Components of a Creative Commons license: The four license elements Creative Commons licenses are made of four elements which are combined in various ways to make up Creative Commons licenses. Each element is unique and adds different restrictions to the work being licensed: The BY Attribution element prevents the work from being redistributed or reused without attributing the creator. The NC Noncommercial element prevents the work from being reused for commercial purposes. The SA Sharealike element ...