How do licences on my blog posts work?
Updated September 24, 2026
Every blog post is All Rights Reserved by default. You can instead choose CC BY 4.0, which lets others republish and adapt it (even commercially) if they credit you, or CC0, which lets anyone use it without conditions. You can open an All Rights Reserved article to a Creative Commons licence at any time, but a Creative Commons licence can’t be changed or removed once the article is published under it.
- Pick the licence with License … Change in the blog editor. On a draft it applies when you publish; on an article that is already published, press Apply.
- The licence covers your text, the cover, and the images, video and audio you added to the article. It doesn’t cover media hosted on other sites, material you quote, or readers’ comments.
- It also covers what you add to the article later.
- Readers see the licence under the article once it is rated Family or Teen+.
- If you delete a CC-licensed article, anyone who already copied it keeps their rights under that licence.
- CC BY credit looks like: “Article title” by @username via BudgetPixel AI (link to the article), CC BY 4.0.
More on the licence page.