A Creative Commons license is one of several public copyright licenses produced by Creative Commons, a U.S. non-profit corporation, that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work"
Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig at the 2002 event for the first release of the licenses
An example of a permitted combination of two works, one being CC BY-SA and the other being public domain
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Creative Commons license
…A Creative Commons license (CC license) is one of several public copyright licenses produced by Creative Commons (CC), a U.S. non-profit corporation, that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work" for public good. A CC license is used when…
Lawrence Lessig (January 2008)
Creative Commons Japan Seminar, Tokyo (2007)
A sign in a pub in Granada notifies customers that the music they are listening to is freely distributable under a Creative Commons license.
Creative Commons guiding the contributors. This image is a derivative work of Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix.