What are the legal copyright options available?
Answer
Creative commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges. Creative commons provide licenses and public domain tools that give every person and organisation in the world a free, simple, and standardised way to grant copyright permissions for creative and academic works. This is to ensure proper attribution, and allow others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works.
There are six types of licences available from Creative Commons.
- Attribution permits others to use, share, alter and remix your work as long as they give credit to the creator.
- Share Alike permits you to share, change and remix your work, even for commercial purposes. As long as they credit the creator and license the changed work under the same license type.
- Attribution No Derivates license allows for sharing and distribution of works without changing or altering the work. Credit to the creator must be distributed along with the work. You can share the work commercially or non-commercially.
- Attribution Non Commercial license allows others to change, share and remix your original work but not use it for commercial purposes
- Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike allows for sharing, changing and building upon the original work while crediting the creator. All new work must carry the same license and all derivates must be non-commercial.
- Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives is a restrictive.