CC licenses

June 7, 2010 3:19 PM

Help me understand the limits of creative commons, in particular, using attribution-noncommercial-no derivs licensed photos/videos for an ad-powered blog.

By my understanding, if you have an ad-powered blog, you cannot use a noncommercial licensed photo on your site (are there any exceptions?). But since linking to published content (news articles/other blogs) is okay, this leads me to the question of linking to videos.

There's a video under the CC noncommercial license that I would like to link to (not embed). I would be linking directly to the producer's page, to let the reader learn more about the topic if she chooses. Would this be in violation of the license?

posted by bluelight to Law & Government (2 answers total)

Best answer: Creative Commons licenses only grant additional rights; they do not take away any rights you already have under copyright law.

Linking to content does not usually require the permission of the copyright holder. You can do it regardless of how they license their content. See Wikipedia on deep linking for some more information and legal precedent.
posted by mbrubeck at 3:22 PM on June 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

You can link to anything you like. Creative Commons only comes into it when you want to embed the video.
posted by DarlingBri at 3:25 PM on June 7, 2010