Creative Commons Licenses

Abstract

Creative Commons (CC) licenses are a series of open licenses that provide a simplified method for creators (i.e., copyright holders) to license materials in a way that is more open to the public. The three-layer design simplifies the CC licenses while still providing versions that can be read and used by lawyers and computers. The six CC licenses are: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, and CC BY-NC-ND. Other tools are the CC0 and Public Domain Mark.