However, if they wanted to only allow adaptations when others share alike (meaning they place the new work under the same license), that would be an Attribution-ShareAlike license.Īll Creative Commons Licenses, at the bare minimum, allow for non-commercial copying. When choosing a license, creators can select to allow adaptations of their work (yes, no or only if others share alike) and whether or not to allow commercial use of their work.įor example, if a creator wished to allow adaptations but only for non-commercial use, that would be an Attribution-NonCommercial license.
These licenses are made available for free and can even be integrated within a site, such as YouTube or Flickr, to enable the site to make the licenses available to their users.Ĭurrently, there are six different Creative Commons Licenses.
The licenses include three elements: An icon or short text line indicating the license, a “human readable” version of the license ( example) and the full legalese version. The Creative Commons Organization created a series of licenses that creators and rightsholders can place on their work to indicate that they permit certain reuses. Unfortunately, those creators do not have an easy way to indicate that they are fine with their work being used. However, many creators, including researchers, authors, musicians, photographers and filmmakers, are happy to have their work copied, shared or even used in new works. This means that others can not copy the work, distribute it, publicly display/perform the work or create derivative works of it without the permission of the creator or rightsholder. Under copyright law in most of the world, a work is given copyright protection the moment it is created. To understand what Creative Commons is, we first have to look at the problem it’s addressing and how it works to fix it. That’s because Creative Commons is meant to solve a challenging and misunderstood problem with copyright law, not with plagiarism. It is the default license of Wikipedia, covers over 300 million images on Flickr and millions of videos on YouTube.īut for all of its popularity, there’s a lot of confusion with exactly what Creative Commons is. The work of the Creative Commons Organization is everywhere. Contributing Editor Published July 24, 2018įounded in 2001 and releasing its first set of licenses in 2002, Creative Commons (as an organization) aims to help “You legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world.”
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