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There are various Creative Common Licences. The first one is Attribution which means that although your work is copyrighted, others can distribute and display it but they have to give you credit. Another license is Noncommercial which means that others can use your work but only for non-commercial purposes. A third type of license is No Derivative Works. This license prohibits people from altering your work but allows for your work to be copied, distributed and displayed. Finally Share Alike is a license that means that others can use your work to produce new things but must use the same license that governs your work.
It is courteous to put the link, but not always necessary as long as you attribute the image to the author.
ReplyDeleteBTW courteous is correct, but the noun form is courtesy. :-)
Dr. Burgos