You, as a Flickr user have choices of how you upload and offer your pictures under a Creative Commons license, in terms of copyright. Therefore, you need to understand, when browsing others’ work, that many of pictures on Flickr are under these conditions as well. For example, sometimes you are required to make clear to others the license terms of the work under a Creative Commons license by using and distributing the work with a link to the owner’s web page. Flickr uses mainly following four types of license:
Attribution: You allow others to copy, share, display, and perform your copyrighted work, and derivative works as well, only if they give you credit.
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Noncommercial: You allow others to copy, share, display, and perform your work, and derivative works as well, only for noncommercial purposes.
No Derivative Works: You allow others to copy, distribute, display, and perform, only when it is not tampered.
Share Alike: You allow others to share derivative works as well, only under a license which is exactly the same as the license that governs your work.
Well said. It is important to know, however, that Creative Commons is not only used by Flickr but by many other entities as well. Wikipedia is one and you could be another. You could add a Creative Commons license to this blog.
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