Creative Commons Licenses Explanation

Explanation Of Different Creative Commons Licenses

If you are a YouTuber who create online video for your channel, you may realize that it is a time-consuming job to find those royalty free resources for your video, such as free music and sound effects. Creative Common Licenses, which is also called CC licensed, is a type of public copyright licenses that enable free distribution of copyrighted resources free of charge. Creative Common Licenses usually have "CC" icon on the left side of the license tag.

The CC licenses all grant some "baseline rights" which indicate what you can achieve. The "Attribution (BY)" right means you can remix or reuse the resource in your work as long as you can give credit to the creator. The usual way to give credit is to provide some type of attribution in video or description by putting some back links to the creator's website. Since creative commons version 2.0, this right will be compulsory and all CC licenses will include this right.

The "Share-Alike (SA)" right means you need to attach the the same license to your video as the media creator attached to their work. Without this right, you can offer different licenses for your work from the resource. For example, you are using some music resources which are under CC BY license. You want to share your remixed version but you don't want your work to be used for commercial projects by others. So, if there is Share-Alike right attached in original resource, you can add the Non-commercial condition to your work to change the license to CC BY-NC.

The "Non-Commercial" right are the same as the CC BY one except that it cannot be used for commercial work. If you planning to use some music to create video and publish it to YouTube channel to earn some income, you cannot use the resources under CC NC licenses.

The "No Derivative Works (ND)" right means can you can only share the resource under its original taste. You cannot remix it or put it into your video. Similarly to the Non-commercial right, if you are planning to monetize your video, you can use resources under the CC ND licenses.

The combination of those rights will generate different type of creative commons licenses. The top one is the most open license and the bottom one is the most strict one. The most open one is the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license which is same as the public domain license. It will give you the maximum level of freedom to use those resources for your work. The most strict one in this list is the CC BY-NC-ND license. You must give credit to the creator to use the resource in non-commercial projects and no remix or modification can be made on it.

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[TheEnginator]

Thank you for the explanation, but the sound level of the annoying music was too high to understand the explanation.

[samsonchen]

For the 3 and 5 rating, they are interchangeable, depending whether you want to remix or use commercially, if u remix for non-commercial, u can use materials under CC BY NC as long as you give credits, same goes for if u wanna use for commercial but no remix

[emanoelmelo]

What if I use a resource that is CC BY SA as part of a larger project, should the entire project be CC BY SA as well or just the portion that uses the said resource? For example, if I use an image under CC BY SA as the cover art for a book, does that mean the entire book must be CC BY SA or just its cover?

[MaJolieKitchen-htny]

Hi Sir,
Thanks a lot for all your information.
But I have one confusion . I have used one of the cooking recipe with creative common reuse license . But it is removed by youtube . The message is "Terms and policies
This video can’t be uploaded. It contains a copy of content from a video we’ve previously removed due to a copyright removal request."
What are the other points we need to verify before using the video with creative common license.
Kindly give me some suggestion.

[moco]

i would ask a question...if the video is 100% mine but i add music from a subscription that i paif for....should i use CC or standard Youtube License....I know that by use CC i give permission for other to use my video. just in my side..using my video and adding subscription music to be considered as original or not that i can not use CC

[RovanRCTube]

well thats great, where does it show the license level?

[ThomasBerglund-yf]

Is this for youtube videos only? Or video games for school projects etc

[handonos]

Clear explanation, this is what I've been looking for.

[AEY-Gaming]

Thanks for this info. I am basically only going to find images with (license #1/CC license) for my "YouTube thumbnails." Cause I want to (monetize my videos/channel).

[Techbykesh]

Isn’t your video got copyrighted by song??? Can u still monetize this video?

[ZitaZone]

Did not just tell us what one we could use to monetize and make money

[CzuBSkii]

Can i for example download creative commons by 3.0 and 4.0 video's from someones YouTube and upload it on my channel ? What it would look like ? An description need to be added ? Greetings

[StaffordshireTravelAdventures]

Just wondered if i download a Creative Commons video and reupload to my channel with attribution. Then the original pubisher decides to turn the video from creative commons to standard youtube licence. Can i get a youtube strike if he decides its copyrighted now?