IMAGES | LICENSING | LEGAL | COPYRIGHT | CREATIVE COMMONS
A Heads Up About CC NC Images
And CC ND ones for those of you who modify them
Creative Commons is a licensing scheme providing options beyond the binary public domain (No Rights Reserved) and ‘All Rights Reserved’ (©) choices for images and other content.
There are more than ten variations and numbered versions but my header image shows the main six. Let’s explain them simply and clearly.
As you can see ‘BY’ is common in all six. This one simply means ‘attribution.’ As a licensee you need to cite the copyright holder -and licensor- and usually also provide an active link to them. If you don’t you violate the license.
SA stands for ‘Share Alike’. This simply means that if you modify the image -or other content- you are obligated to share it under the same license as the original one (i.e. not claim it as your own).
NC stands for ‘Non Commercial’ and it is the reason I wrote this article. NC licensed images cannot be used on monetized articles but they can be used on non monetized ones.
If you use an NC image on a Medium metered article or any other article you gain money from, in whatever way (even from ads on a WP blog), then you explicitly…
