pregeneratedusername Posted:

The creative commons attribution license only allows you to use the artist’s work if you credit the artist on the reproduction or the derivative work. Also, some creative commons licenses are strictly for noncommercial uses.

Which is why I was specific to which section of Creative Commons could be used. The section I referred to is available for all uses, even commercial, so long as the original source is credited somehow. And that doesn’t mean it has to be credited directly on the image, just the has to be a credit listed somewhere.

Attribution means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work – and derivative works based upon it – but only if they give you credit.

That means I can take five different images from that section, use certain elements of each image to create a new image (a derivative work), and as long as I give credit to those five original artists, I can use the new image for any purpose I want, even commercial sales.

There are 12.3 Million photos in that section, too.