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.

Photos

• Flickr
  • See (cc) some rights reserved link to license
  • One of approximately 20m licensed images on Flickr

Photos (reuse)

• Newsvine
  • See attribution and license link under photo
• Creative Commons blog
  • See attribution and license link under photo
• Geograph Britsh Isles
  • cc-by-sa 2.0 attribution and licence under photo

Videos

• blip.tv
  • Click on "details" tab, link to license

Audio

• Jamendo
  • CC license button/link under tracklist

Audio (reuse)

• ccMixter
  • See "users 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 availability

• 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.

Purchase related media availability

• See Magnatune above, "buy" link

Donation related to work availability

• See Jamendo above, "support this artist" link

Rights warranty/idemnification availability

• Needed