CC BY Attribution Generator
Creative Commons licences like CC BY let you use music, footage and images for free, as long as you credit them correctly. Fill in the details below to get a credit you can paste into a YouTube description, a web page or your video. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
Fill in the title or creator to see the credit.
Fill in the title or creator to see the credit.
Fill in the title or creator to see the credit.
What a CC BY credit needs
Creative Commons recommends crediting four things, often remembered as TASL: the Title of the work, the Author, the Source (where it can be found) and the Licence, with a link to it. If you changed the work, for example by trimming or remixing it, say so. The generator above produces all of these.
Where to put the credit on YouTube
The description is the standard place: viewers can find it, and it can hold links. Put credits under a heading such as "Music" or "Credits", one block per track or clip. A short on-screen credit at the end of the video is a good addition but usually not enough on its own, because it cannot link to the licence.
Common mistakes
- Writing "no copyright intended" instead of a credit. It has no legal meaning and does not satisfy the licence.
- Leaving out the licence link. The licence name alone is not the full credit.
- Crediting the site you downloaded from instead of the creator.
- Using CC BY-NC (NonCommercial) material in a monetised video. NonCommercial licences generally rule that out.
More detail: how to credit CC BY music in your videos and what CC BY 4.0 allows.
Skip the manual step
When you use music or background footage from InkSlop's library, the credits for every CC BY track are filled into your YouTube description automatically when you publish. Try the video creator.