licensing-examples

Licensing Examples

Introduction

Actual 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 and required and 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 terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License..." with license link
• Millions of such pages

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
  • See attribution and license link under photo -- example
• Creative Commons blog
  • See attribution and license link under photo
• Geograph Britsh Isles
  • cc-by-sa 2.0 attribution and licence under photo
• World Politics Watch
  • Photo in article body, attribution and license notice at end of article

Videos

• blip.tv
  • Click on "details" tab, link to license
  • 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/link at bottom of right sidebar, meant to apply to videos too
• Internet Archive
  • See license button/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

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