Licence markings for web pages containing Creative Commons licensed materials

Creative Commons licences are included in web pages through HTML coding. A short form of marking which identifies the licence, or an extended form which incorporates product metadata, can be used. The Creative Commons website provides the HTML code for each of the Creative Commons licences at: http://creativecommons.org/license

Agencies should provide the ability to automatically include the required Creative Commons licensing HTML through their web content management systems where such systems are available.

For web pages, the following licence markings should be applied (see Tables 1 and 2).

Table 1: GILF short form licence markings for web pages

Minimum Markings
Licence badge image:	Creative Commons licence badge image
URL link:	This work is licensed under a [URL link]

The following provides a sample short form HTML coding using a Creative Commons Attribution (BY) licence and an example.

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia License</a>

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia Licence

Table 2: GILF extended form licence markings for web pages

Markings
Licence badge image:	Creative Commons licence badge image
URL link:	The [title of work] is licensed under a [URL link]
Attribution or Recommended Citation:	To attribute this material, cite author or organisation [Year of publication], title, journal, issue, publisher

The following provides a sample extended form HTML coding using a Creative Commons Attribution (BY) licence and an example.

</div>

The Queensland Regional Profiles are licensed under a

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia Licence</a><br>

To attribute this material, cite

<span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" property="dc:publisher"> Queensland Treasury 2008</span>,

<span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" property="dc:title" rel="dc:type">Queensland Regional Profiles</span>

</div>

For example:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia Licence
To attribute this material, cite [ Organisation ], [ Title ]

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Licence markings for web pages containing Creative Commons licensed materials