Creative Commons provides free copyright licenses that allow creators to choose how others can use their work. Creators can select licenses that allow others to share, remix, and use their work either commercially or noncommercially. The different license options include attribution, which requires credit; share alike, which requires derivative works to have the same license; noncommercial, which only allows noncommercial use; and no derivative works, which does not allow adaptations of the original.
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1. Creative Commons
Nonprofit corporation
Consistent with copyright rules
Free licences & other legal tools
Freedom to decide for others to:
Share
Remix
Use commercially or not
(source: Creative Commons).
Marcel Duchamp (1919)
La Gioconda with a Moustache
2. Attribution
Others can copy, distribute, display, and perform your
work and derivative works based upon it but only
if they give credit the way you request.
Share Alike
Others can distribute derivative works only under a
license identical to the license that governs your work.
Noncommercial
Others can copy, distribute, display and perform your
work but for noncommercial purposes only.
No Derivative Works
Others can copy, distribute, display, and perform only
verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works.