Their main particularity is that they’re focussed on clearly establishing rights given to third parties, and less so on rights the author possesses (who, of course, also has rights over their work). Creative Commons licensesĬreative Commons is a non-profit organisation born in 2001.Ĭreative Commons licenses follow a more lax model, also called copyleft.
It’s transferable, and there are tons of famous cases where authorship was bought for production of derivative works, like, for instance, films based on literary novels. The title doesn’t always coincide with the author or creator. It stipulates that the authorship rights’ owner of any creation has full and exclusive authority over its reproduction and distribution, as well as over any creation deriving from their work. It’s the creepy old man of licenses, with many years of history behind it. It is the most common and the most popular one. Copyright is the license that recognises a creator’s authorship rights for the creation of a piece of work. Let’s start with the most “restrictive” licenses.
In all these cases, we frequently ask ourselves: can I use any multimedia file I find on the Internet with impunity? The answer is no, you can’t.įor today’s article we are going to review basic licenses it’s important to be familiar with if we want to utilise or reproduce third-party images on our website, and how we must do it to avoid getting into trouble. We use songs to add a soundtrack to our corporate videos to make them more vibrant. We use infographics to illustrate our posts or articles. Oftentimes, due to lack of resources, we need to employ third-party works on our website.
3 How to find and how to use third-party images on your website.
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