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Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law. From the reuser’s perspective, the presence of a Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work answers the question, What can I do with this work?
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Find the right license for your work with Creative Commons. Follow the steps to select the license based on your preferences for attribution, commercial use, derivative works and sharing requirements.
Creative Commons logo. A video explaining how Creative Commons licenses can be used in conjunction with commercial licensing arrangements. A Creative Commons ( CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".
Licenses List. Creative Commons is the nonprofit behind the open licenses and other legal tools that allow creators to share their work. Our legal tools are free to use. Use the license for your own material.
Creative Commons is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to share knowledge and culture using open licenses. Learn about the licenses, tools, and community that support open access to billions of works.
The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates.
Creative Commons licenses are made up of four conditions that can be mixed and matched to create six different license combinations. The licenses also come in three formats: human-readable, lawyer-readable, and machine-readable.