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What must an attribution notice contain under CC BY 4.0 and Apache-2.0, how does Creative Commons advise assembling it, and where do licence texts and platform pages impose different or no attribution duties?

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CC BY 4.0 requires, where supplied, keeping creator identification, copyright notice, licence and disclaimer notices and a link to the material, plus stating modifications and the licence; Apache-2.0 requires prominent change notices in modified files, retained attribution notices and the NOTICE file contents. Capture these at intake; the CC TASL guide is advice narrower than the legal text (producer reading of the guide).

CC BY 4.0 requires, where supplied, keeping creator identification, copyright notice, licence and disclaimer notices and a link to the material, plus stating modifications and the licence; Apache-2.0 requires prominent change notices in modified files, retained attribution notices and the NOTICE file contents. Capture these at intake; the CC TASL guide is advice narrower than the legal text (producer reading of the guide). Curator qualifications: Code/licence texts read 2026-10-22; no package validated; not legal advice. OpenRAIL-M paragraph 4 and CC wiki guide (S24, S28) from producer reading. Limitations: Code/licence texts read 2026-10-22; no package validated; not legal advice. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt",
      "note": "CC BY 4.0 legalcode.txt Section 3(a)(1)-(3); Apache-2.0 Section 4(b)-(d)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt",
      "note": "CC BY 4.0 legalcode.txt Section 3(a)(1)-(3); Apache-2.0 Section 4(b)-(d)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/21f890f9da3cfbeaba8e2ac3c425ee9e998d5229/LICENSE",
      "note": "CC BY 4.0 legalcode.txt Section 3(a)(1)-(3); Apache-2.0 Section 4(b)-(d)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution",
      "note": "CC BY 4.0 legalcode.txt Section 3(a)(1)-(3); Apache-2.0 Section 4(b)-(d)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] CC BY 4.0 requires, where supplied, keeping creator identification, copyright notice, licence and disclaimer notices and a link to the material, plus stating modifications and the licence; Apache-2.0 requires prominent change notices in modified files, retained attribution notices and the NOTICE file contents. Capture these at intake; the CC TASL guide is advice narrower than the legal text (producer reading of the guide). · locator: CC BY 4.0 legalcode.txt Section 3(a)(1)-(3); Apache-2.0 Section 4(b)-(d) source

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