Creative Commons Integration
With Your Website
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Integration

From simple blogs to elaborate user-generated content sites,
there are easy ways to share website content by publishing it
under a Creative Commons license. This document provides
a basic overview of how you may integrate Creative Commonslicensing into your website.

License Content

http://creativecommons.org/license/
Visit the Creative Commons license page and use our simple
license chooser to select a Creative Commons license thatindicates how others may use your creative content. Many
websites apply a default license to govern all the content onthat site. For example, Creative Commons publishes all content
on its site under the Creative Commons Attribution license(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) and displays thisat the bottom of every page.

Publish License
Basic
http://creativecommons.org/projects/marking
After reviewing the conditions and selecting a license, grab thebasic HTML code that is produced and add it to your website. Forexample, users who choose the Creative Commons Attribution
license receive the following code snippet:

Many wikis and remix sites use a single default license forthe entire site so that all the content is cross-compatible.
User-generated content sites like Flickr, Blip.tv, andSlideShare give contributors the option of setting a default
content license, and allow the use of a different license forindividual content items.

<a rel=”license”
href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/”><img alt=”Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License”
src=”http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/us/88x31.png”/>
</a>
<br/>
This work is licensed under a <a rel=”license”
href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/”>Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
United States License</a>.

The code will display an icon as well as a link to the fulllicense deed hosted at the Creative Commons site. This is theappropriate way to mark your CC-licensed content.

If you are using multiple licenses on your website, replace the license
URLs with the appropriate variables that signal another license.

The CC Javascript Widget (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Jswidget) provides another lightweight method for integrating
license selection into web applications. The licensing widget isused by TypePad as well as in WpLicense for Wordpress.

Intermediate
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RDFa
RDFa allows building metadata into XHTML and other XML
documents with attributes. It is a good way to exhibit semantic
relationships for search engines. RDFa allows users toannotate human readable notices on individual assets that
include the custom properties needed for attribution and otheruseful properties.

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morePermissions

Advanced
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/XMP

http://creativecommons.org/projects/ccplus

XMP facilitates embedding metadata in files using a subset of RDF.
Most notably, XMP supports embedding metadata in PDF andother image formats, though it is designed to support nearly any filetype. Further information for more advanced users can be found at
http://creativecommons.org/projects/ccREL.

The CC+ initiative makes it possible for you to grantusers rights beyond the rights granted by a CC license.
Use rel=”cc:morePermissions” to denote links allowing
a user to do more than the CC public license permits,e.g. purchase commercial rights.

License-aware User Interface
Searchhttp://search.creativecommons.org/
Some sites facilitate search based on license properties, such as:
1. Any Creative Commons license.
2. Creative Commons licenses that allow remix.
3. Creative Commons licenses that allow commercial use.

Participate

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/
Please visit the Creative Commons Wiki for more
information on this project and to participate in refining
these documentation efforts. See the developer mailing list
(http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel) for information
on subscribing and list archives. Finally, help out by addingyour CC-licensed project to our Content Directories(http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories).

Examples of search engines with these capabilities built in canbe found at Creative Commons Search.

Browse
You can create a CC-portal on your site for browsing CC-licensed
content. This could be based upon tags, internal marking oflicensing, or any way you see fit to limit browsing. Good examples
are provided by Flickr (http://flickr.com/creativecommons/) andJamendo (http://jamendo.com/creativecommons/).

More Information
Please visit http://creativecommons.org/
Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under

Share, reuse, and remix — legally.
www.creativecommons.org

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/