Template:YouTube CC-BY 4.0

This video, screenshot, or audio excerpt was released on YouTube under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license after July 2025.
YouTube changed the Creative Commons license version from CC BY 3.0 to 4.0 on August 1, 2025.
YouTube statement: "If you add a Creative Commons Attribution license to your video, it means other creators can reuse your work subject to the terms of the CC BY license."
To the uploader: You must provide a link to the original file and the authorship information, if available.
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attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
Template documentation[view · edit · history · purge]
This documentation is transcluded from Template:YouTube CC-BY 4.0/doc.

For YouTube videos with licenses that state "Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)" published after July 2025

The template automatically sets the following categories:

Usage


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Click on "Show More" in the section beneath the video (near the date and the description). Only use this template with videos listed as "Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)".
See Commons:Where is the license on various sites? #YouTube for explanation how to find licensing information on YouTube pages.
In case the license status changes in the future, add {{LicenseReview}} to call license reviewers to the page, which will verify the linked video's license.

Template parameters

<templatedata>JSON</templatedata> ./. {{TemplateBox}}
TemplateData

TemplateData is a way to store information about template parameters (the description of those and of the whole template) for both humans and machines. It is used by VisualEditor and possibly other tools like Upload Wizard.


Existing template documentation
At Wikimedia Commons, it is recommended to use {{TemplateBox}} with either ‎useTemplateData=1 or ‎useTemplateData=only on the ‎/doc subpage and transcluding it with {{Documentation}} into the template. <nowiki>-tags can be wrapped around the arguments, if required, to avoid templates being expanded.

Newly created template documentation and imports
Another option, especially for imported templates, or for users with JSON experience, is placing raw <templatedata>-tags into the Wikitext of the template, as described in various Wikipediae.


Wikipedia's help about TemplateDataCommons-specific information

Category:Templates using TemplateData

For YouTube videos with licenses that state "Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)" published after July 2025

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Author1

The author of the video, for attribution in the template

Stringoptional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

See also

  • {{YouTube CC-BY}}, for YouTube videos with licenses that state "Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)" published before August 2025

Localization

বাংলা  Deutsch  English  español  français  italiano  日本語  русский  slovenščina  中文

This template makes use of {{Autotranslate}} and the translate extension.


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