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The Creative Commons is a non-profit, charitable corportation, providing free tools for people who want to license their work on generous terms, people who want to make creative uses of those works, and people who benefit from this symbiosis. Referring to artists, musicians, teachers, scholars, scientists, writers, photographers, filmmakers, etc, anyone who will gain from the use of our tools. The purpose for doing so is to allow people to license their work via much easier and reliable methods, gaining further exposure and widespread distribution that copyright doesn’t always offer.

The Creative Commons was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, a Stamford Law Professor. Based in Massachusetts, US. Lawrence Lessig, one of America’s most influential public intellectuals devised a book entitled, “Free Culture”, were he discusses the concepts between piracy and property in the intellectual property, referring to exclusive rights such as copyright, etc.

Any creative work is licensed by the following conditions:

1.) Attribution

Lets others distribute, remix, tweak and build upon your work, having been credited.

2.) Attribution Share Alike

Lets others remix, tweak and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, having been credited.

3.) Attribution No Derivatives

Allows redistrubition – commercial and non-commercial, aslong as it is passed unchanged, having been credited.

4.) Attribution Non-Commercial

Lets others remix, tweak and build upon your work non-commerically, with no need to license your derivative works on the same terms.

5.) Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Lets others download and redistribute your work, allowing translation, remixes and the production of new stories based on the work to occurr.

6.) Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

Most restrictive license, allowing redistribution. Allows others to download and share your work, providing they link back to you without any alterations.