What does the licensing method mean for non-commercial purposes?

Choosing a "create and share" License Agreement for your work does not mean that you have waived your copyright. It means that part of your rights can be provided to some recipients under certain conditions.

What are the conditions? Our site will allow you to mix and match your conditions from the design list below. After combination, a total of 11 "creation and sharing" licenses are available for you to choose from.

 SignatureYou allow others to copy, distribute, present, and present a work that belongs to your copyright, or a derived work based on the work, provided that they provide your name.

For example, Xiaomei adds the "signature" permission to her photo, because she hopes that the photos will be available all over the world when providing her name. Bob found her photo on the Internet and wanted to put it on his home page. So Bob put a photo of Xiaomei on his site and clearly stated that Xiaomei was the author.

 Non-commercial use.You allow others to copy, distribute, present, and present a work that belongs to your copyright, or a derived work based on the work, but the condition is that it can only be used for non-commercial purposes.

Example:Tavend adds "non-commercial" permission to his photos. Tom put the photo of tavend into a collage poster. Without the permission of taven, Tom cannot sell his collage posters.

Prohibiting Derived Works. You allow others to copy, distribute, present, and present works that belong to your copyright, but they can only be intact and cannot be derived from modified works.

Example: Sarah added the "prohibit derivative works" permission to the recording of one of her songs. Joan wants to extract part of Sarah's song to his new song. John cannot do this without the special permission of Sarah.

Consistent. You allow others to distribute derivative works based on your work, but the condition is that you must provide the same license agreement as your work license agreement.

Note: a license agreement cannot be "prohibit derivative works" or "maintain consistency", and the "maintain consistency" clause only applies to situations where derivative works are allowed.

Example: Chiang's online photos are appended with "non-commercial use" and "consistent" terms. If Lin Li is an amateur album creator, she uses Chiang's photos to put them in her own jigsaw puzzle, which becomes a derivative work. The "consistency" clause requires Lili to add "non-commercial use" and "consistency" License Agreement for her work. That is to say, she must make public her new work according to the license conditions that Chiang gave her permission to use.

For more examples, visit the example Page (English ).

Obtain a license agreement
When you select a combination of license conditions provided by "creation sharing", you will receive three license agreements with different expressions:

1. Sharing Agreement: this is a simple License Agreement explanation, with clear and easy-to-understand icons to allow others to clearly understand your rights.
2. Legal Text: This is the complete legal text of the relevant agreement. You need to know that these texts can be generated in court.
3. digital code: this is a computer-understandable protocol code that helps search engines or other applications confirm your work and Terms of Use.

Use a protocol
You should include a shared "reserve part of rights" icon on your site, which is close to your work. The icon button will be linked to the sharing Treaty page, so that the world will know that your work adopts a license agreement. If you find that the license agreement has been damaged, you can file a lawsuit against the benchmark of copyright infringement. For more help and tips on using the "Create and share" protocol, refer to here (in English ).