Creative and commons license

This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.

A Creative Commons licensor answers a few simple questions on the path to choosing a license — first, do I want to allow commercial use or not, and then second, do I want to allow derivative works or not? Creative Commons licenses require licensees to get permission to do any of the things with a work that the law reserves exclusively to a licensor and that the license does not expressly allow.

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The Commons Deed is a handy reference for licensors and licensees, summarizing and expressing some of the most important terms and conditions. Try out our simple License Chooser. This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. License design and rationale All Creative Commons licenses have many important features in common. The Licenses. These common features serve as the baseline, on top of which licensors can choose to grant additional permissions when deciding how they want their work to be used. Think of the Commons Deed as a user-friendly interface to the Legal Code beneath, although the Deed itself is not a license, and its contents are not part of the Legal Code itself.

All Creative Commons licenses have many important features in common. You can use Google to search for Creative Commons content, look for pictures at Flickr , albums at Jamendo , and general media at spinxpress. This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you.

Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. Skip to content. Licensees cannot use technological measures to restrict access to the work by others. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.

Attribution CC BY This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. We call this the Legal Code layer of each license. The final layer of the license design recognizes that software, from search engines to office productivity to music editing, plays an enormous role in the creation, copying, discovery, and distribution of works.

Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons , a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon , all within the boundaries of copyright law.

Each license begins as a traditional legal tool, in the kind of language and text formats that most lawyers know and love. Every license helps creators — we call them licensors if they use our tools — retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work — at least non-commercially. Licensees must credit the licensor, keep copyright notices intact on all copies of the work, and link to the license from copies of the work.

The Wikimedia Commons , the multimedia repository of Wikipedia , is a core user of our licenses as well. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. If a licensor decides to allow derivative works, she may also choose to require that anyone who uses the work — we call them licensees — to make that new work available under the same license terms.

This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Every Creative Commons license also ensures licensors get the credit for their work they deserve.

4.1 Choosing and Applying a CC License

Searching for open content is an important function enabled by our approach. This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. Every Creative Commons license works around the world and lasts as long as applicable copyright lasts because they are built on copyright. Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you.

Our licenses do not affect freedoms that the law grants to users of creative works otherwise protected by copyright, such as exceptions and limitations to copyright law like fair dealing.