licensing-examples

Introduction

Per the microformats process, this page provides actual real-world examples of licensing and attribution for web pages, embedded works and derivatives thereof in practice on the web with URLs to the originals.

Real World Examples

All of these examples include licensing, so they are categorized based on what is licensed, required, and what complementary information provided (e.g., attribution and related commerce).

Web pages

• Creative Commons
  • See bottom of page -- "Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License" with rel-license'd link to license.
• Technorati
  • See "CC License" link to license on every page, unclear what is being licensed
• WikiNews
  • See "...available under the Creative Commons Attribution..." with license link
• over 55 million of such pages according to a Google search for available "under the Creative Commons Attribution" - even if that is 10x overstated, that's still millions of examples.

Photos

• Flickr
  • See (cc) some rights reserved link to license
  • One of approximately 20m+ licensed images on Flickr
• Wikimedia Commons
  • See license name/link. This photo is also dual licensed under GFDL.
  • Thousands of similar images.

Photos (reuse)

• Newsvine
  • examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
    • attribution person name and link
    • license title and link (though link just points to creativecommons.org instead of a specific license)
• Creative Commons blog
  • attribution person name and link
  • license name abbreviation and link
• Geograph Britsh Isles - implied schema under photo:
  • attribution person name
  • attribution person link
  • license title and link

old / out-of-date examples:

• http://worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=356 World Politics Watch (dead link)
  • Photo in article body, attribution and license notice at end of article

Videos

• blip.tv
  • Click on "details" or "metadata" tab, note license summary and link
  • Thousands(?) of these
• lulu.tv
  • See "cc license" link to license
  • Thousands(?) of these
• Geek Entertainment TV
  • Generic "all content on this site is licensed..." license button/summary/link at bottom of right sidebar, meant to apply to videos too
• Internet Archive
  • See license button/summary/link
  • Thousands of these

Audio

• Jamendo
  • CC license button/link under tracklist
  • Same for 1696 albums
• ArtistServer.com
  • "CC some rights reserved" graphic/link next to each track
  • ~5000 such tracks
• DMusic.com
  • License full URL/link
  • thousands(?) of same
• ccMixter
  • See (by:) license icon/link to license among other descriptive info for track
  • 5183 such tracks
• Internet Archive
  • See public domain icon/link to dedication
  • Thousands of similar
• Freesound
  • See "license" heading/button/link
  • ~20,000 of same
• GarageBand
  • See license button/link
  • Thousands(?) of same
• Opsound
  • See "ccbysa2.0" link to license for each track
• Soundclick
  • See "CC license" link next to some tracks
  • 278,939 such tracks
• Simuze
  • See "licentie" icons/link in table of "nieuwe uplods" for each track

Audio (reuse)

• ccMixter
  • See "uses samples from" attributing source works

Attribution to creator

• Bounty Hunters, Map Makers & Gold Miners
  • See under "The following information is provided for attribution purposes"
    • Author's Name: Greg London
    • Title of Work: Bounty Hunters
    • URL: http://www.GregLondon.com/cc/by

Attribution to journal or other publisher

• Public Library of Science
  • Attribution (citation) to "Hamelryck T, Kent JT, Krogh A (2006) Sampling Realistic Protein Conformations Using Local Structural Bias. PLoS Comput Biol 2(9): e131"

Attribution to collective

• Code v2 wiki
  • See bottom of page (emphasis added) "This wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. By editing or posting to this wiki, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, and you agree to waive attribution for your contributions with the understanding that copyrighted material made available from this wiki will be attributed to the wiki itself, namely the Code v.2 Wiki. Please link back to this site when giving attribution."

Attribution with work title

• See "Bounty Hunters" above

Attribution with link required

• See "Bounty Hunters" above
• See "Code v2 wiki" above

Attribution waived

• The Violin Site
  • "Music released under this licence on Mutopia is given the additional permission that attribution is not required in audio derivatives of the work."

Attribution to derivative's source work

• See ccMixter above.

Attribution with description of derivative use

• Needed

Commercial licensing

• Magnatune
  • See "license" link
  • One of 499 albums with same structure
• Beatpick
  • See "license" link
  • One of ~100 albums at BeatPick with same structure
• Shotgun Marketing
  • See "buy this content" button bottom of page above CC license button
  • Part of ScooptWords program.
• John Palfrey
  • See "license this content" beneath CC license button
  • Part of Licensa program.
• Gary New Vision and Electron Love Theory
  • See pump audio icon above CC license button

Purchase related media

• See Magnatune above, "buy" link
• See Beatpick above, "buy" link
• Dead bird photo
  • See "this work is licensed" and "buy this image"
  • Cruxy.com provides same structure for any media type
• See Electron Love Theory above, "buy now" button

Donation related to work

• See Jamendo above, "support this artist" link

Rights provenance/warranty/idemnification

• Docly
  • See license link
  • See orange "n" followed by numbers link, supposedly to a verification page
• Registered Commons
  • See license link
  • This would presumably be a page linked to by publisher from elsewhere for verification purposes

License notice with content hash

• See DMusic above
• See Registered Commons above
• ccMixter and Internet Archive audio examples above include content hash in hidden-to-humans RDF-in-a-comment
• See CC nonweb tagging for explanation of use case.

see also

• licensing
• licensing-examples
• licensing-formats
• licensing-brainstorming