Creative+Commons

= Creative Commons =

Creative Commons licensing allows authors and creators to designate whether they want their work to be considered an open source - free to be shared and modified by others or copyrighted with certain conditions. Creative Commons was launched in 2002 and is not exactly an alternative to the copyright law as all material found online is are copyrighted by law, but this licensing allows creators to designate specific rights that they will allow for their material.

Possible licenses: **Attribution** || **CC** **Attribution ShareAlike** || **CC** **Attribution** **No Derivatives** || **CC** **Attribution Non-Commercial** || **CC** **Attribution** **Non-Commercial Share Alike** || **CC BY-NC-SA** || This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. || **Attribution****Non-Commercial****No Derivatives** || **CC BY-NC-ND** || This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially. ||
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 * BY** || This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. ||
 * [[image:attribution_sharealike.png align="center"]]
 * BY-SA** || This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects. ||
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 * BY-ND** || This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you. ||
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 * BY-NC** || This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. ||
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