Creative Commons helps you publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work. If you already have a website loaded with your own work, follow the steps below, otherwise try one of our guides to publishing your licensed work at a variety of hosting services.

Do you have your own web site?

You can choose a Creative Commons License to apply to your works:

Standard License

License your images under your terms. Our set of standard licenses will let you share photos with anyone while protecting your images from limits you put in place.

Or, choose a prepared license for images:

Sampling

People can take and transform pieces of your images for any purpose other than advertising, which is prohibited. Copying and distribution of the entire work is also prohibited (this license works best for collage).

Guide to adding Creative Commons to your existing online image gallery

Need a Place to Publish your images?

Here are some places that will host your work for free with Creative Commons licenses:

Features

Interview with Flickr

Jul 2004 Flickr is a new photo management application that lets you annotate photos, share them with friends and family, and now, apply Creative Commons licenses to your shared photos. Flickr's founder, Stewart Butterfield, talked to Creative Commons about this interesting application.

Illegal Art

July 2003 A museum exhibit called "Illegal Art" might sound like a history of naughty pictures. Turns out that the exhibit (through July 25 at SF MOMA Artist's Gallery) is more innocuous than most primetime TV: A Mickey Mouse gasmask. Pez candy dispensers honoring fallen hip-hop stars. A litigious Little Mermaid. Not kids' stuff, exactly—but illegal?