Creative Commons


Description

Creative Commons’s tools provide for anyone, from individual creators to large companies and institutions, a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. Creative Commons covers the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright and the public domain. Their licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright to help users to keep copyright while allowing certain uses of the work. Creative Commons have collaborated with intellectual property experts around the world to ensure that their licenses work globally.

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Creative Commons has developed a range of freely available licenses which help users to retain copyright in their work while creating a wide range of possible options to allow the work to be used by others. So, while the integrity of the original work is protected, a range of uses of the work can be permitted. Creative Commons have collaborated with intellectual property experts around the world to ensure that their licenses work globally.