Kevin Batdorf

BjornW

Tarmo Toikkanen

Ahmad Bilal

hugosolar

possumbilities

Timid Robot

robmyers

The Creative Commons WordPress plugin gives authors the ability to license content with a Creative Commons license (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/choose/" rel="nofollow ugc">Choose a License</a>). With this plugin you can:
<ul>
<li>License your blog (single WordPress install)</li>
<li>Display license for the site, posts and pages</li>
<li>Prevent license changes per site (all pages on a site must use the same license)</li>
<li>License your WordPress Network (WordPress Multisite install)</li>
<li>License some of your sites differently in your WordPress Network</li>
<li>Prevent license changes in your WordPress Network (all pages on all sites need to use the same license)</li>
<li>License all your content with the same license (license per author)</li>
<li>License some posts, pages, or images differently from your default license (per content license)</li>
<li>License posts and pages by simply including CC Gutenberg blocks for each license required (Gutenberg License Blocks)</li>
<li>Display license information with “One Click Attribution” for images</li>
</ul>
The default license for the site used by the plugin is the Creative Commons <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow ugc">Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)</a> license. This can be easily changed including attribution, depending on the permissions by a user with the role: superadmin, site admin or author.Selecting a license is straight forward. If you are not sure about what license to use, you can use the linked license chooser.
The selected license can be displayed as a widget or a footer or both at the same time. In Appearance > Widgets, the CC License widget can be dragged to any widget area like the side-bar and all other available areas. You can also include the license in footer. We recommend using the widget for better compatibility with your theme. You can use individual licenses in posts or pages using Gutenberg blocks.

Creative Commons

Official Creative Commons plugin for licensing your content. With Creative Commons licenses, keep your copyright AND share your creativity.

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)

bmellor

The License plugin gives authors the ability to mark their content with a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Creative Commons</a> license and to display the license along with the content. With Creative Commons licenses, you keep your copyright but share your creativity. By default, the plugin will display a license in the footer of your theme. The license plugin is also a widget, and can be dragged to any widget area. This will supress display of the license in the theme footer and display it instead in the widget area.
The site default license is the Creative Commons <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" rel="nofollow ugc">Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)</a> license. Authors can set their own default license using the license settings provided under Personal Options on the edit profile page. The license can also be set for each individual post using the setting provided in the Publish box while creating a new post.
Authors can choose how they would like their attribution to be displayed on the site. The author can attribute the work to their display name or their nickname as defined in their profile options. Alternatively, the author can attribute the work to the site as defined in the General Settings of the site.
This plugin is a component of the <a href="http://ecs.mit.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">MIT Educational Collaboration Space</a> project.

License

The license plugin gives authors the ability to mark their content with a Creative Commons license and to display the license along with the content.

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