Topic: Open Access and Copyright: Creative Commons

What is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.

Creative Commons licenses help creators retain copyright while defining the terms on which others may use their work. 

Content created by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand with support from InternetNZ, originally published http://creativecommons.org.nz/, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

For examples of each license, go to the Creative Commons website and read "About the Licenses":

• CC0 Public Domain Declaration, CC0
• 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

Content created by Creative Commons, originally published at http://creativecommons.org/examples, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.