Brief overview of types of Creative Commons Licenses

1. Creative Common Licenses

2. There are a number of variation
and combinations of CC licenses
that can be applied to images.

3. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to
the license, and indicate if changes were made. You
may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in
any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or
your use.
ATTRIBUTION

4. You may copy, distribute, display and make
derivative works based on it for non commercial
purposes.
NON-COMMERCIAL

5. You may copy, distribute, display only verbatim
copies of the work, not derivative works based on
it.
NO DERIVIATIVES

6. You may distribute derivative works only under a
license identical to the license that governs the
original work.
SHARE ALIKE

7. These are the most basic forms of the Creative
Commons licenses under which you will find most
images online. There are many combinations of the
above licenses.
See more information in one of the modules that follow.