What is Creative Commons in simple terms?

What is Creative Commons in simple terms?

Creative Commons (CC) is an internationally active non-profit organisation that provides free licences for creators to use when making their work available to the public. These licences help the creator to give permission for others to use the work in advance under certain conditions.

What is a Creative Commons license for kids?

What are Creative Commons licenses? Creative Commons licenses are free copyright licenses that creators can use to indicate how they’d like their work to be used.

What does Creative Commons mean in copyright?

Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law.

What do Creative Commons do?

Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization that enables sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools, with affiliates all over the world who help ensure our licenses work internationally and raise awareness about our work.

What is Creative Commons vs copyright?

Creative Commons is an organization and a license which can take the forms of differing attributions while copyright is a law which allows owners to license their work.

What are the 4 types of Creative Commons?

What are the different types of CC licenses?

• Attribution CC BY.
• Attribution ShareAlike CC BY-SA.
• Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND.
• Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC.
• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA.
• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND.

What is Creative Commons for images?

Creative Commons images are images that have been licensed so that they can be used for a variety of purposes. Using Creative Commons material is a great alternative when it is not possible or practical to get permission from the copyright owner.

What is NC SA CC?

CC BY-NC-SA. This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.