TweetThere is a lot of noise around copyrighted material and rights with content creation online. Lets keep this simple and get to understand a new creative commons licence you can choose for your own band.
Copyright – Creative Commons Steps
Head to your browser and type in the following: creativecommons.org
Once on the home page you will see the box below, what we are after is The Licenses.
Within this page you are shown the seperate attributes you can choose for your license. You can also mix and match them up on the next page. This is a quick intro as to what they have to offer.
Choose the license below by clicking on the left link, this will take you through to your certificate page and a snippet of code you can paste wherever you wish.
The languages which creative commons licenses accept. So wherever your work get’s dragged to, someone is able to understand what they are available to do with your original work.
Here is the license I accepted to use, have another look through it as it sets it out to you again but from another angle. By clicking the link at the bottom of the page you can access it and spread it wherever you would like.
The left green square is the code you can place anywhere, it shows a button where it has been placed and is a clickable link through to your full terms. If you want to make individual work attributed to a license, click the links to the right. Then if you choose to utilize flickr, you don’t have to put a license anywhere within your profile, every image will show their representative licenses.
To install on your WordPress blog, go to your admin panel. Drop down ‘Appearance’ and click the ‘Widgets’ section.
Drag a Text box from the choices and put it in to your right widget bar, this is the area your live widgets sit. Paste the copied code from the Creative Commons website in to the space and include a title. Click the Save button and go check out your license being shown on your blog.
If you wish to put it elsewhere, there are the options shown above from where you copied the code, such as Flickr and other hosted blogs. Usually your CMS will have space you can put widget/button type part’s of code. If you developed your own website or had a designer get things ddo things for you, you can always ask them to copy it in on each page.
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