What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0
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Creative Commons is basically an non-profit organization that provides creators the flexibility to distribute their work without losing their rights to the work.
How to use Creative Commons
Creative Commons can be utilized for enhancing your work but as well as give you the ability to distribute your own work in the way you would like to.
Creative Commons provides licenses where they explain their purpose and how to choose one of your own.
In order to do any of that, you would need an understanding of the terms and symbols utilized in Creative Commons.
Attribution basically means credit and all licenses require giving credit to the author. Beyond that the system is pretty flexible.
Creative Commons uses 6 types of licenses.
Creative Commons provides licenses where they explain their purpose and how to choose one of your own.
In order to do any of that, you would need an understanding of the terms and symbols utilized in Creative Commons.
Attribution basically means credit and all licenses require giving credit to the author. Beyond that the system is pretty flexible.
Creative Commons uses 6 types of licenses.
Attribution
This license lets others copy, share, modify and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for your original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, and is ccLearn’s recommended license for OER.
Attribution — Share-Alike
This license lets others copy, share, modify and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license new creations derived from your work under the same conditions.
Attribution — No Derivatives
This license allows others to copy and share your work, including commercially, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you. Your work can be included in compendiums, but may not be translated or modified without your permission.
Attribution — Non-Commercial
This license lets others copy, share, modify and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you.
Attribution — Non-Commercial — Share-Alike
This license lets others copy, share, modify and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license new creations derived from your work under the same conditions.
Attribution — Non-Commercial — No Derivatives
This license allows others to copy and share your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you. Your work may not be translated or modified without your permission. This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses.