Searching for Creative Commons licensed content

Posted by: Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Software Engineer

If you’ve ever wanted to let your users only see content that is free to use and share (such as through Creative Commons), here are a few tips on how to do it. Assuming you’ve indicated the CC license in your pages, you can now specify that you want only content with specific licensing terms to show up in your CSE. We’ve made available four labels for CSE creators to use based on the CC licenses:

• free_use_share (by-nc-nd)
• free_use_share_commercially (by-nd)
• free_use_share_modify (by-nc-sa)
• free_use_share_modify_commercially (by-sa)

You can either use one of these…