Creative Commons licenses

The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. These tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. 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.

CC licenses are ofter combined with following abbreviations, to further specify the restrictions.

abbreviation		explanation
CC-0	Public Domain	Waive all rights
CC-BY	By Attribution	Attribution is given to the creator
CC-SA	Share Alike	Adaptations must be shared under the same terms
CC-NC	Non Commercial	Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
CC-ND	No derivates	No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted

Example: CC-BY-NC

Publication details

Author

Publisher

Creative Commons

Year of publication

Ongoing

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC by 4.0)

Language

English

Format

Webpage

Workflow

Data and Info Serving;