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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. From the reuser’s perspective, the presence of a Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work answers the question, What can I do with this work?
Creative Commons (CC) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to helping build and sustain a thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture.
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Creative Commons is a set of legal tools and a nonprofit organization, as well as a global network and a movement — all inspired by people’s willingness to share their creativity and knowledge, and enabled by a set of open copyright licenses.
Feb 13, 2017 · Creative Commons develops, stewards, and promotes legal and technical tools that expand the interoperable commons and enhance creativity and innovation. Current priorities include:
Feb 16, 2010 · Creative Commons is a Massachusetts-chartered 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt charitable corporation. Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
May 15, 2018 · Upcoming Creative Commons-relevant events around the world: get details, add an event, learn how to start a ccSalon, and sign up for our events mailing list.
Aug 22, 2022 · Creative Commons’ Openverse: Creative Commons, the same nonprofit that devised the CC license, has its own open-source search engine that you can use to find free images. All the images here...
