Important Notes About Flickr and Creative Commons Licenses!

After perusing through Flickr, I have learned more about the different types of licenses that can be attributed with copyrighted material.  There are some terms that I found and retrieved on Flickr: Creative Commons that helped me to understand better:

Attribution means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.
Noncommercial means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.
No Derivative Works means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
Share Alike means:
You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Any of these licenses can be combined to protect the work as the artist sees fit.  For example, there may be a attribution, no derivatives license.  This means that the artist allows others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work if given credit, but no type of changes can be made to that work.  Or, there can be an attribution, noncommercial license where the artist allows others to copy, distribute, display or perform the work by those that give the artist credit and are noncommercial.

It is essential that individuals that are using copyrighted works have an understanding of these different types of licenses as to protect themselves from legal issues.

Here is a photo I found on Flickr of Ireland....