Creative commons

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Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

[edit] Overview

They are a nonprofit organization. Everything they do — including the software they create — is free.

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Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright — all rights reserved — and the public domain — no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work — a “some rights reserved” copyright.

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Creators choose a set of conditions they wish to apply to their work. Multiple choices are permitted.

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Attribution. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.


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Noncommercial. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.


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No Derivative Works. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.


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Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

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