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Images and Licensing
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Advertorial images for marketing and publicity purposes should be able to be shared and distributed by any community member without creating licensing issues. Therefore, when creating any image material relating to posts on typo3.org, please make sure to use images with one of the following licenses:

**CC BY** 
This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

When using a CC BY licensed image, credit must be given to the creator. 

**CC BY-SA**
This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

When using a CC BY-SA licensed image, credit must be given to the creator and adaptions must be shared under the same license. 

**CC BY-ND**
This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. 

When using a CC BY-SA licensed image, credit must be given to the creator and no adaptations of the work are permitted. 

**CC 0**
CC 0 (CC Zero) is a public dedication tool, which allows creators to give up their copyright and put their works into the worldwide public domain. CC0 allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, with no conditions.

Please stay away from any licenses, forbidding the commercial use, distribution or usage of an image without dedicated agreement from the creator itself.