Creative Commons Licensing

Flickr is an online community to store, sort, search, and share photos. It allows people to connect through photography and share visual stories. In seeking to protect its' users, Flickr offers various creative commons licensing options for users. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that gives users an alternative to full copyrighting. The first is Attribution licenses, which allows users to "copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work," and any derivative works created based upon it. These attribution licenses require users to give you credit before using any of your work first. Noncommercial licenses allow users to copy, distribute, display, and perform your work, but only for noncommercial purposes. No derivative licenses allow others to copy, distribute, display your work verbatim, but not derivative works based upon those original works. Finally, there are Share Alike Licenses which allow others to distribute derivative works only "under a license identical to the license that governs your work."