How can I copyright my food photos?
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Creative Commons licenses are legal tools that creators and other rights holders can use to offer certain usage rights to the public, while reserving other rights.
Free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give your permission to share and use your creative work— on conditions of your choice. Share your work with Creative Commons Tools
Those who want to make their work available to the public for limited kinds of uses while preserving their copyright may want to consider using CC licenses. Others who want to reserve all their rights under copyright law should not use CC licenses.
The six licenses and the public domain dedication tool give creators a range of options. The best way to decide which is appropriate for you is to think about why you want to share your work, and how you hope others will use that work.
How to apply a CC license or CC0 to your work on The Cook’s Cook Community Forum Facebook Group.
- You may put your CC license in the Post or Comments.
- This can be a simple bit of text like this:
© 2023. This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license. - All links must be in the comments.
*If you include the link, place the license in the comments like this:
© 2023. This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license.)
- This can be a simple bit of text like this:
- You may link to your personal blog or website only in the comments.
The Cook’s Cook reserves the right to repost material from the Forum to its other social media channels, with appropriate attribution to the creator. We do not accept images with watermarks, logos, text or branding, in order to showcase high quality photography for our members.
