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Encyclopedia > Creative Commons License
Creative Commons, some rights reserved.
Creative Commons, some rights reserved.
Creative Commons 2.0, some rights reserved.
Creative Commons 2.0, some rights reserved.

The Creative Commons License refers to the name of several copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a US nonprofit corporation founded in 2001. Image File history File links This page or image is redundant to http://commons. ... Image File history File links This page or image is redundant to http://commons. ... For copyright issues in relation to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:Copyrights. ... December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Version 2 of Some Rights Reserved logo Some Rights reserved logo No Rights reserved logo The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share. ... US,Us or us may stand for the United States of America us, the oblique case form of the English language pronoun we. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


These licenses all grant certain baseline rights, such as the right to distribute the copyrighted work on file sharing networks. The copyright holder has the option of specifying certain extra conditions: File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ...

  • Attribution (by): Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only if they give you credit.
  • Noncommercial (nc): Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only for noncommercial purposes.
  • No Derivative Works (nd): Permit others to copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based upon it.
  • Share Alike (sa): Permit others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work. (See also copyleft.)

Mixing and matching these conditions produces sixteen possible combinations, of which eleven are valid Creative Commons licenses. Of the five invalid combinations, four include both the "nd" and "sa" clauses, which are mutually exclusive; and one includes none of the clauses, which is equivalent to releasing one's work into the public domain. The five licenses without the Attribution clause are being phased out because 98% of licensors requested Attribution. A share-alike copyright license clause requires that any improved version of the work be shared on like terms with everyone else—that is, share and share alike. ... The reversed c is the copyleft symbol. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...


None of the Creative Commons licenses have been certified by the Open Source Initiative. The Debian GNU/Linux distribution does not believe that it adheres to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. The Free Software Foundation recommends the licenses for creative works other than software and software documentation, provided the "nc" and "nd" options are not used. [1] The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software. ... Debian, created by the Debian Project, is a widely used distribution of free software developed through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. ... A Linux distribution or GNU/Linux distribution (or a distro) is a Unix-like operating system comprising software components such as the Linux kernel, the GNU toolchain, and assorted free and open source software. ... The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) are a set of guidelines that the Debian Project uses to determine whether a software license is free software license, which in turn is used to determine whether a piece of software can be included in the main, free software distribution of Debian. ... Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project, through the use of GNU Licenses (see below). ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Software Documentation or Source Code Documentation is written text that accompanies computer software. ...


Creative Commons licenses are currently available under twenty different juristictions worldwide, with eleven others under development. [2]


References

  • Portions of this article are taken from the Creative Commons website, published under the Creative Commons Attribution License v1.0.

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Creative Commons prefers that copyright be respected in the old fashioned way, by a common and mutual respect for copyrighted works and of the freedoms and limits prescribed by the author and enforced by the law.
What Creative Commons seeks to do is to provide an easy and simple means for creators to adopt a license which allows them to maintain certain exclusive rights to their works and at the same time, let others know that they can use some of the exclusive rights in accordance with the license terms.
Creative Commons licenses expressly reserve rights to request the user to remove from the collective work and/or derivative work any credit or attribution to you and the user must comply with the request, to the extent practicable, when the request is made.
Creative Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (954 words)
The Creative Commons website enables copyright holders to grant some of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms.
The initial set of Creative Commons licenses was published on December 16, 2002.
The main Creative Commons licenses are written with the U.S. legal model in mind, and therefore the wording may not mesh perfectly with existing law in other countries.
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