What exactly is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organisation that has defined and introduced a system of licensing.
Prior to Creative Commons a gulf existed between:
- full copyright protection (where almost no use is allowed without permission)
- public domain (where permission is not required at all)
Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright - all rights reserved - and the public domain - no rights reserved.
Creative Commons licences can enable people to copy, distribute, use and alter works according to the particular strength of licence associated with them.
Creators choose a set of conditions they wish to apply to their work:
Attribution.
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted
work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give
credit the way you request.
Noncommercial.
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and
derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.
No Derivative Works. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
To view the more information on these licences visit Creative Commons: Licence Your Work
(Creative Commons symbols provided with kind permission of CreativeCommons.org)
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