Marking your own work
The first case is marking your own work so that others can easily discover, reuse it and give you credit/attribution. The best practice for marking your work is to follow the TASL approach for your own portions of the content, and for the portions of the content created by others:
- T = Title
- A = Author (tell reusers who to give credit to)
- S = Source (give reusers a link to the resource)
- L = Licence (link to the CC licence deed)
When providing attribution, the goal is to mark the work with full TASL information. When you don’t have some of the TASL information about a work, do the best you can and include as much detail as possible in the marking statement.
Starting with version 4.0, the licences no longer require a reuser to include the title as part of the attribution statement. However, if the title is provided, then CC encourages you to include it when attributing the author.
For more examples of how to mark your own work in different contexts, spend some time looking through CC’s extensive marking page [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .
See below for an example of marking an image with TASL information. The following image is a good example of CC marking because TASL with all appropriate links is provided in the attribution statement.
How do I apply a CC licence to my work?