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Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give others permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. Many "open" resources use Creative Commons licences.
Applying a Creative Commons license to your own work does not mean you give up your copyright:
Creators retain full copyright in their work.
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There are six different types of Creative Commons licenses that specify general conditions of what can and cannot be done with or to a particular work.
Somewhere in a Creative Commons licensed work - electronic or print - you will see a symbol denoting the type of license applied. The six are as follows:
In some cases, an author may choose to dedicate a work to the public domain by waiving all of his/her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. This is indicated by the following:
Such a work can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission or paying royalties.
The license terms stipulate different permissions, and the conditions of some Creative Commons licenses are incompatible with others. Below is a chart indicating what licenses can and cannot be used together:
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