diff --git a/exampleSite/content/page/about.md b/exampleSite/content/page/about.md
index f49aec5c..46a3b3e2 100644
--- a/exampleSite/content/page/about.md
+++ b/exampleSite/content/page/about.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ description = "Hugo, the world's fastest framework for building websites"
 date = "2019-02-28"
 aliases = ["about-us", "about-hugo", "contact"]
 author = "Hugo Authors"
+license = "CC BY-NC-ND"
 +++
 
 Written in Go, Hugo is an open source static site generator available under the [Apache Licence 2.0.](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/LICENSE) Hugo supports TOML, YAML and JSON data file types, Markdown and HTML content files and uses shortcodes to add rich content. Other notable features are taxonomies, multilingual mode, image processing, custom output formats, HTML/CSS/JS minification and support for Sass SCSS workflows.
diff --git a/layouts/partials/article/components/footer.html b/layouts/partials/article/components/footer.html
index 39d5b586..ab46dc7d 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/article/components/footer.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/article/components/footer.html
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
     </section>
     {{ end }}
 
-    {{ if .Site.Params.article.license.enabled }}
+    {{ if and (.Site.Params.article.license.enabled) (not (eq .Params.license false)) }}
     <section class="article-copyright">
         {{ (resources.Get "icons/copyright.svg").Content | safeHTML }}
-        <span>{{ .Site.Params.article.license.default }}</span>
+        <span>{{ default .Site.Params.article.license.default .Params.license }}</span>
     </section>
     {{ end }}
 </footer>
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