Questions tagged [creative-commons]
The Creative Commons license allows the distribution of copyrighted works. Use this tag for questions on how the Stack Exchange network makes use of the CC-license.
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The MIT License – Clarity on Using Code on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange
Update (Dec. 22, 2015): Thanks, everyone, for your feedback to this proposal. We're going to digest this one over the holidays and should have a follow-up announcement answering your questions and ...
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Can I make a YouTube video adapting Stack Overflow content?
There are many interesting questions on Stack Overflow, that have many good answers and many good comments. I want to make an animated YouTube video about a question and some answers to help visual ...
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Does the Share-alike clause of the content license mean software code content can't be used other than in open-source software?
Does the current applicability of the CC-BY-SA 4.0 to most Stack Overflow content actually mean that one can only embed (or adapt) code content from Stack Overflow in their own software if they make ...
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How can I keep Stack Overflow clones out of my Google search results?
What is the best way to keep the various Stack Overflow clones and aggregators out of my Google search results?
Sites that are not to be named; I'm looking at you.
They are seriously messing up my ...
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Posting content under licenses besides CC BY-SA 4.0
If I post content (authored by me) on an SE site, and I have released it under some license X, how does this work with the SE TOS (even though it links to SO I assume it's applicable to all sites ...
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How do we make sure that contributors get the credit and attribution they deserve when their work is used for training AI models?
I have read the blog post about Community is the future of AI and I could not find any serious answer to this question.
Here is the way I see it: The knowledge in Stack Exchange (and Stack Overflow in ...
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How do I remove my name from a post, in accordance with CC BY-SA?
The Creative Commons FAQ states that:
Third, if the licensor does not like how the material has been modified or used, CC licenses require that the licensee remove the attribution information upon ...
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Will SE tell us if they sell our content?
So, the CEO of Stack Exchange has been quoted in a news article saying that they plan to sell the content of the SE network to large companies training neural networks like the one used for ChatGPT. ...
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Can SE just resell our data, relicense it and remove the attribution requirement?
SE has decided to charge for the network content when used for training AI according to an article. This has not been officially announced here, so we do not know the details.
But the main question to ...
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How far do we need to go with unattributed images? [duplicate]
The CC licensing requires attribution for any content that isn't your own, including images. People often post unattributed clarifying images copied from somewhere else. It is clear from the post that ...
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Dealing with posts plagiarising from copyrighted sources
What means do users have to report plagiarism or posting of copyrighted work?
A button to flag content as plagiarism would be useful. It's not quite "offensive," and should probably have a different ...
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As a workaround to Imgur being blocked, is there a image hosting site which allows URL uploads and does not violate CC BY-SA 4.0 copyright?
Imgur is blocked in China (and probably in some other countries as well as many workplaces and educational institutions). This is annoying for Chinese users and Chinese.SE in particular.
Workaround: ...
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YouTube channel scraping Q&A from Stack Exchange [duplicate]
There is this horrible YouTube channel scraping Q&A from Stack Exchange without attribution to the author of either question or answers, and no links to the original post.
Stack Exchange licenses ...
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License link on SEDE archive page points to wrong BY-SA version
On the Stack Exchange Data Explorer Help page, there is a link to the Internet Archive page. On the Stack Exchange Archive page, there is a section for licensing, with the following description:
All ...
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Does Stack Exchange take any measures against sites violating our license? [duplicate]
I updated an answer of mine with an improved solution:
Does PostgreSQL support "accent insensitive" collations?
I hit Google to find related answers that might be outdated now, just to ...
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Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow have moved to CC BY-SA 4.0
Effective today, all Subscriber Content on Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network will be available under the terms of version 4.0 of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) ...
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Can the "attribution required" link please be removed from the footer and help page?
The footer of all SE sites links to a blog post called Attribution Required. It is also linked to in the Help Centre.
As has been covered previously, this so-called requirement to give attribution in ...
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When adding image from Wikimedia Commons, automatically add author/license/link
Many Stack Exchange questions and answers embed images from Wikimedia Commons. It is probably the most used image source here.
The good news
Thanks to their license, all images from Wikimedia Commons ...
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How to give attribution when using the same code on multiple webpages [closed]
I am very new to the Stack Overflow community. I noticed that there are several excellent answers here that can help me to build a website. I am a little bit aware of the License CC BY-SA 4.0 applied ...
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Are we allowed according to the ToS to exempt a part of our post from the CC license?
tl;dr: Right now we are not allowed to quote outside sources (unless they are compatible with cc by-sa 4.0) or use images under fair use exceptions in our posts. Creative Commons provides guidance how ...
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CC BY-SA in footer should be capitalized
The footer currently has cc by-sa written in small case but it should be capitalized as CC BY-SA following the style used in the official Creative Commons page, the Help Center, and one of the ...
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Are the private-beta sites also under Creative Common license?
The SE questions/answers are under the CC BY-SA license (ref).
Does it also include the beta sites that are still in the private stage?
--> If yes, isn't there a contradiction between this license ...
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What happens to the content of a SE site that has been closed?
The SE questions/answers are under the CC BY-SA license (ref). When a beta site does not make it and is closed, what happens to its content? Is it lost forever or is there a way to access the CC BY-SA ...
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Should Stack Exchange switch to CC BY-SA 3.0? [duplicate]
Currently, Stack Exchange sites use the CC BY-SA 2.5 license.
There's a lot of content (not the least of which is Wikipedia) under the newer 3.0 version of this license.
Content licensed under 2.5 ...
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Does archival interfere with attribution removal?
There was a question asking about CC BY-SA 3.0's requirement to remove attribute on request. It was brought up that automatic archives may still preserve historical information, including attribution ...
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Why does my comment show 41 "license: CC by SA 4.0"? Are all comments protected under copyright?
Why does my comment show this?
41 license: CC by SA 4.0
Are all comments protected under "creative commons" copyright? What does 41 mean? Why not 1 license - why 41?
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Use the localized SE site's language for links to the Creative Commons' licensing pages
Any post timeline contains a link to the Creative Commons' license pages. For modern posts, it is https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. As far as I see, there are many different languages ...
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Can one take the entire Q&A base and move it to a new site?
In the light of all recent moderators and experienced users quitting, I was wondering if anyone is allowed to take the entire Q&A set of a site, and move it to a new site, with new rules?
I think ...
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Can I reuse and republish code snippets from Stack Exchange sites under a new license?
I want to start a project, Scheme Cookbook, with a better license because an old cookbook, that is no longer available online, was licensed under LGPL, which requires the inclusion of the license with ...
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Site footer copyright scope and meaning
The footer on every page (except chat) says:
site design / logo © 2021 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa. rev 2021.5.28.39383
Does this mean only the site design and ...
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What gives SE the legal right, under the CC-BY-SA license, to modify user profiles without indicating that the content has changed?
The Terms of Service clearly indicated that all content that you provide to SO Inc is licensed under CC-BY-SA, and that would include your About Me section of your user profile, which SO Inc is ...
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Do users have right to not allow redistribution of their posts?
In my understanding, the CC BY-SA 4.0 license allows me to redistribute any material posted in Stack Exchange, as long as I put a link back to the original post. Does that mean a user has a right to ...
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Is moving self-answers in questions into separate answers under the Community user valid under CC BY-SA?
Prompted by my question at How best to deal with self-answers edited into questions? which was somewhat answered with a link to What to do when OP answers his/her own question in an edit?, which then ...
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Just to clarify the attribution requirements
When a question or answer was posted under one license (e.g. CC BY-SA 3.0), and edited under a different license (e.g. CC BY-SA 4.0), who should be credited as the "author" for attribution ...
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How do I get my content on Stack Exchange licensed correctly or else removed?
I do not agree to my old content being relicensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (it is not the same as 3.0).
Stack Exchange is not the owner of my contributions and is not allowed to change the license without ...
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Stack Exchange Data Dumps still indicating old attribution requirements
The Stack Exchange Data Dumps still contain wording mandating that attribution be given in specific ways, going beyond the Creative Commons licensing requirements:
Specifically the attribution ...
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Does the dual license in the pre-2018 Terms of Service allow SE to permit others to redistribute subscriber content outside of CC BY-SA?
I was reading around the topic of the precise details of subscriber-content licensing on SE, and I found (and read more carefully than the previous times I'd seen it) this thread on FOSS.SE from 2017, ...
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Is it OK to license content under "the latest version of CC BY-SA at the time being"?
So... we've all seen the recent chaos caused by the license change from CC 3.0 to CC 4.0, and it's foreseeable that a similar disaster will occur when changing again to a future version of CC (4.1 or ...
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Stack Exchange copyright - where should we give attribution?
I know that code from the Stack Exchange sites is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA.
So if I use code from Stack Exchange sites, attribution is required (as mentioned in this article).
How ...
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Will concerns regarding the move to CC BY-SA 4.0 elicit any further dialogue from Stack Exchange, Inc.?
Fifteen days ago, it was suddenly announced that the user-contributed content on Stack Exchange had been relicensed as CC BY SA 4.0.
The change took immediate and retroactive effect and is still in ...
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Make it clear that you need to have the right to license any pictures under CC BY-SA
tl;dr: Right now we're not allowed to upload any images we don't own (fair use does not apply on this site, see the link). Let's make this a bit clearer in the image upload form.
When you try to ...
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EU copyright laws (2018-2019). Any risk for Stack Exchange?
The European Parliament JURI committee will be voting on 20th June 2018 on reforms of the EU copyright laws (full law proposal). According to a Creative Commons article titled 'Act now to stop the EU’...
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The mobile version of the website does not show the license along with the contributions
The contributors license their work with a creative commons license and more specifically "cc by-sa". This means that the if anybody, e.g. SE, wants to use the work of a contributor then they need to ...
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Why do people object to the license change so strongly despite having preference towards the proposed new license (CC 4)?
I noticed that many are happy to have their content (questions and answers) published under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which was proposed recently, but received a great backlash.
The last time ...
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SEDE footer still links to version 3.0 of Creative Commons license
According to Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow have moved to CC BY-SA 4.0, subscriber content is now licensed under version 4.0 of the Creative Commons license. The change is reflected in the footer ...
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SEDE help page still links to version 3.0 of Creative Commons license
Related to the post : SEDE footer still links to version 3.0 of Creative Commons license.
In the Stack Exchange Data Explorer help page, currently the Creative Commons license is referred with ...
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Does a third party deleting an account that still has posts violate CC BY-SA 4.0?
According to Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license, you need to retain the name of the creator when sharing licensed material.
If You Share the Licensed Material (...
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License violation [duplicate]
The CC BY-CA 4.0 states
Section 3 – License Conditions.
Your exercise of the Licensed Rights is expressly made subject to the following conditions.
a. Attribution.
If You Share ...
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Has anyone sued SE for changing licensing? [closed]
There seems to be a lot of current drama flowing from the post Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow are moving to CC BY-SA 4.0 and related activities.
It seems like some authors who published under 3.0 ...
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Stack Exchange should stop using the Creative Commons logo [duplicate]
If I understand correctly, SE reproduces its user-produced content using a CC-BY-SA license with additional restrictions: namely, from point 3 of the TOS,
In the event that You post or otherwise use ...
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