Creative Commons
Open licensing nonprofit
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides standardized copyright licenses allowing creators to specify how others may use their work.
The licenses range from permissive (attribution only) to restrictive (noncommercial, no derivatives).
Abbreviated CC, the licenses appear across the internet: This photo is available under a Creative Commons license.
CC BY-SA means attribution required, share alike. (Lowercase creative commons refers to shared creative resources generally.)
Assigning origin or cause
- noncommercialNot for profit
- copyleftMandatory openness inheritance clause
- derivativeFunction's rate of change
- royalty-freeNo per-use payments
legal code · permissions · rights · restrictions · commercial use · modification · redistribution · compliance
Act of seeking
- filterPorous separation device
- markingIndicating with symbols
- metadataDescriptive information about content
- embedFix within surrounding material
download · citation · credit · best practices · machine-readable
Educational reference volumes
- educational resourcesTools for acquiring knowledge
- illustrationsPictures explaining text
- iconsRepresentative small images
- fontsCharacter set designs
attribution
Assigning origin or cause
- noncommercialNot for profit
- copyleftMandatory openness inheritance clause
- derivativeFunction's rate of change
royalty-free · legal code · permissions · rights · restrictions · commercial use · modification · redistribution · compliance · terms
search
Act of seeking
- filterPorous separation device
- markingIndicating with symbols
- metadataDescriptive information about content
embed · download · citation · credit · best practices · machine-readable
textbooks
Educational reference volumes
- educational resourcesTools for acquiring knowledge
- illustrationsPictures explaining text
- iconsRepresentative small images
nonprofit
Organization serving public good
- intellectual propertypatents, copyright, patent, trademark, trademarks
- digital copyrightcopyright law, DRM, DMCA, digital rights, infringement
- licensinglicense agreement, licensing board, application fee, license renewal, license fee
- publishing rightscopyright, publishing rights, reproduction rights, distribution rights, copyright law
- copyleftcopyleft, GPL, share-alike, libre, free software
- copyrightcopyright, copyright law, copyright act, copyright office, copyright notice
Creative Commonsall rights reserved
Legal claim on content
exclusive rights · DRM · digital rights management · copyright protection · restricted use
create, creation, creative, creator, created, creativity, creating, commons, creatively