Subject Guides: Creative Commons for Researchers: a Practical Guide: Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Other users can:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Under the following terms:

Attribution — Users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. They may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that you endorse them or their use.
NonCommercial — Users may not use the material for commercial purposes.
No additional restrictions — Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Attribution means that you receive appropriate credit as the creator of your work. It is a basic condition of all the licences that users have to provide credit to the creator, and certain other information such as where the original work can be found.

NonCommercial means that you will not permit your work to be used primarily for monetary gain or commercial advantage.

This information is adapted from Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International licence (CC BY 4.0)