Using YouTube on your website

YouTube, the biggest social networking site of its kind, allows people across the world to upload and share original videos.

According to the official YouTube Blog, 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. YouTube caters for every audience, from extreme sport to business models.

There are 23 900 search results for “Cape Town” on YouTube. For a tourism-related website, the immediacy of YouTube is a way to show visitors what Cape Town is really about, to give them a feel for the places they could visit.

Using Creative Commons licensed photographs

Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that offers an alternative to full copyright. According to their website, they provide “free licences and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.”

There are a number of different Creative Commons licence conditions that you may come across. They are:

• Attribution: You may copy, distribute and display copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if you give credit as requested.
• Share Alike: You may distribute derivative works only under a licence identical to that governing the original work.
• Non-commercial: You may copy, distribute and display the image – and derivative works based upon it – but for non-commercial purposes only.
• No Derivative Works: You may copy, distribute and display only verbatim copies of the image, not derivative works based upon it.

For more information, visit the Creative Commons website.

How to attribute a Creative Commons licensed image

The most common Creative Commons licence that you will come across, particularly on Flickr – an online photo management and sharing application – is the attribution allowing you to copy, distribute and display the image and derivative works so long as you credit the photographer.

When using Creative Commons Flickr photographs, it is common practice to credit the photographer and link either to their photostream or to the original photo on Flickr.

Below are Creative Commons licensed images of Cape Town which can be used with the following attributions.