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Creative Commons Explained
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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Creative Commons Explained
- 1. Creative Commons • Nonprofitcorporation • 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 cancopy, 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.