This document provides instructions on how to attribute a creative commons license to a digital document. It discusses the different types of creative commons licenses, how to select a license on the creative commons website, and how to add license information and metadata to PDFs using Acrobat. Steps include editing the PDF properties, creating an XMP file, integrating a creative commons panel in Acrobat, and configuring related program files and folders. The overall purpose is to correctly apply a creative commons license to allow for legal reuse and sharing of creative works.

1. How to Attribute Creative
Commons Licence?
S.K. Soam
Head, Information and Communication Management
NAARM, Hyderabad- 500 030, India
soam@naarm.ernet.in

2. 1.Type of Licences
1.Attribution: Use, re-use, remix, build upon, even commercial
but give credit to Author
2. Attribution-No Derivatives: pass unchanged and in whole
including commercial but with credit to Author
3. Attribution-Non commercial-Share Alike: You need to put your
work under same conditions whatever build upon or remix
4. Attribution-Share Alike: Like 4 but can use commercial also
5. Attribution-Non commercial: Like 1 but non commercial
6. Attribution-Non commercial-No Derivatives: Most restrictive,
like 2 but no commercial.

3. 2. Open CC website and Choose
Licence

4. 3. Fill the Required Information

5. 4. Adding cc notice to Digital
Document
Participatory Socioeconomic Analysis of Geographical Indications in India by Dr S.K.
Soam and Dr S.M. Ilyas is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at
http://www.naarm.ernet.in.
http://eprints.naarm.org.in/108/

7. 4.1. Editing PDF using Acrobat

8. 5. Create XMP File

9. 5.1. Adding XMP file to a pdf
Change Folder options

10. 5.2. Select Show hidden file,
folders and drives

11. Copy the XMP file you saved to the folder
C:UsersAdmin1AppDataRoamingAdobeXMPMetadata Templates

12. 5.3. Open Document properties in
Acrobat

13. 5.4. Go to Additional Metadata>
Advanced

14. 5.5.Click on the fly-out menu in
the top left corner

15. 5.6. Select the template you saved

16. 6. Integrating creative commons panel
Download the latest creative commons panel Zip file from
http://johnbishopimages.com/creativecommons/?xmp

17. 6.1. Copy the XMP folder from ZIP file into
C:UsersAdmin1AppDataRoamingAdobe

18. 6.2. Copy FlashPlayer Trust folder from ZIP file into
C:UsersAdmin1AppDataRoamingMacromediaFlash
Player#Security

19. 6.3. Open Xmp.cfg file using notepad from
C:UsersAdmin1AppDataRoamingMacromediaFlash
Player#SecurityFlashPlayerTrust

20. 6.4. Change the username to the username of your
system (eg: <username) to Admin1) and remove # from
the path

21. 7. Open Acrobat and view the creative commons
panel