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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?
Number of Creative Commons licensed works as of 2017, per State of the Commons report. Creative Commons maintains a content directory wiki of organizations and projects using Creative Commons licenses. On its website CC also provides case studies of projects using CC licenses across the world.
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Creative Commons licences provide a standardised way for copyright owners to grant permission to reuse their creative work. There are four elements in the CC system. There elments can be combined to form six different licences, shown here in order of least to most restrictive.
Purpose and goal. Lawrence Lessig (January 2008) Creative Commons Japan Seminar, Tokyo (2007) CC some rights reserved. A sign in a pub in Granada notifies customers that the music they are listening to is freely distributable under a Creative Commons license. Made with Creative Commons, a 2017 book describing the value of CC licenses.
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