by Buffy Hamilton, August 22, 2012

1. What Are Creative
Commons Licensed
Images?
A Student’s Guide
from The Unquiet Library
Fall 2012
Buffy Hamilton, Librarian
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com
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CC image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/francois/400487528/sizes/l/

2. CC image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterleth/4616626262/

3. The Rationale and Purpose of Creative Commons Licensing
Creative Commons
provides tools that
The Creative Commons
give everyone from
copyright licenses and
individual creators to
tools forge a balance
large companies and
inside the traditional
institutions a simple,
“all rights reserved”
standardized way to
setting that copyright
grant copyright
law creates.
permissions to their
creative work.
Every license helps
creators — we call
them licensors if they
Every Creative
use our tools — retain
Commons license also
copyright while
ensures licensors get
allowing others to
the credit for their
copy, distribute, and
work they deserve.
make some uses of
their work — at least
non-commercially.
Source: "About The Licenses." Creative Commons. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Aug. 2012.
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<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/>.

4. Our Favorite Ways Of Accessing Photo Pools of
Copyright Friendly Creative Commons Images
Advanced Flickr Search
Compfight (search engine for Flickr)
Wikimedia Commons
(some public domain images; some Creative Commons licensed
photos—look at the bottom of the page with the photo for details) 4

5. We also like using
PHOTOS (not cartoon clip
art) from Microsoft Clip
Gallery in Office or the
online version of
Microsoft Clip Gallery
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6. Our Guidelines at CVHS
All images should come from copyright friendly sources
that either provide explicit WRITTEN permission for us to
use the photos at no charge OR photos that have a
Creative Commons license.
Provide image attribution (giving credit to the source) on a
slide, in a document, or in a multimedia Works Cited page.
Pay attention to the Creative Common license—for some
photos, you may not alter the original work. The library
staff can help you make this determination if you think you
may want to tweak the image with a photo editing tool.
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7. Combinations of Creative Commons
Licenses
Attribution +
Attribution alone Attribution +
NoDerivatives
(by) ShareAlike (by-sa)
(by-nd)
Attribution + Attribution +
Attribution +
Noncommercial + Noncommercial +
Noncommercial
NoDerivatives ShareAlike
(by-nc)
(by-nc-nd) (by-nc-sa)
Source: "Creative Commons License." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Aug. 2012. Web. 22 Aug. 2012.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license>. 7

8. Attribution
CC BY
.
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license
terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work,
even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.
This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for
maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
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Learn more at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

9. Attribution Share-Alike
CC BY-SA
.
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial
purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical
terms.
All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also
allow commercial use.
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this
work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page..
Learn more at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ and 9
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

10. Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
.
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and
non-commercial, as long as it is passed along
unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to
others the license terms of this work. The best way to
do this is with a link to this web page.
Learn more at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ and 10
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

11. Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
.
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon
your work non-commercially
Although their new works must also acknowledge you
and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license
their derivative works on the same terms.
Learn more at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ and 11
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

12. Attribution-NonCommercial-
ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA
.
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build
upon your work non-commercially, as long as
they credit you and license their new
creations under the identical terms.
Learn more at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ and 12
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

13. Attribution-NonCommercial-
NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses
Only allows others to download your works and share them with others
as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use
them commercially.
Learn more at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ and 13
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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Source: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

15. Attribution: Noncommercial : No Derivative Share Alike :
You let others You let others Works: You allow others
copy, distribute, copy, distribute, You let others to distribute
display, and display, and copy, distribute, derivative works
perform your perform your display, and only under a
copyrighted work - and perform only license identical
work - and derivative works verbatim copies to the license
derivative works based upon it - of your work, that governs
based upon it - but for not derivative your work.
but only if they noncommercial works based
give you credit. purposes only. upon it.
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Source: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

16. The baseline
minimum quality
we are looking for
in a CC image is
that it require
attribution.

17. How do I read the CC license on a
Flickr image from the Creative
Commons photo pool?
Image from Microsoft Clip Gallery 17

18. Mouse over each
icon to see what the
CC licensing symbol
represents/means.
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CC image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicenergy/1846375599/sizes/l/

19. Providing Attribution to CC Imagges
from Flickr
• This CC image from: [insert
hyperlink]
• Be sure to click the space bar
after you paste the hyperlink
so it turns blue and becomes
“live”
• You may link to the original
page or the “download
image” page
• Use size 8-10 font
Image from Microsoft Clip Gallery
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20. How do I read the CC license
on an image from Wikimedia
Commons?
Image from Microsoft Clip Gallery 20

21. Go to the section entitled Licensing and read
the license before using and providing
attribution. Use the same methods as the
Flickr photos for attribution (see slide 14)
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Screenshot from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiny_Grass_Blue_Zizula_hylax_by_kadavoor.JPG

22. To provide attribution
to a Microsoft Clip
Gallery image, simply
create a text box and
type the text: Image
from Microsoft Clip
Gallery; you may use
size 8-10 font.
Image from Microsoft Clip Gallery 22

23. If you shoot
your own
original
photography,
please
include
attribution
that states:
Original
photography
by [your
name]
Image from Microsoft Clip Gallery

24. CC image via
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xjrlokix/5097846224/si
zes/l/in/photostream/

25. Q&A
Q&A
CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/f-oxymoron/5005673112/sizes/l/in/faves-10557450@N04/

26. Questions or Need Help?
buffy.hamilton@cherokee.k12.ga.us
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com