Creative Common

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Creative Common is a non-profit corporation that provides opportunities for people to share their work and build upon work of others according to rules of copyright. Thanks to Creative Common, creative work of others is available to the public for free.Creative common licences work alongside copyright so users can modifie their copyrights terms and change them according to theirs needs.


Creative Common offers four types of licences for it's users to choose from; attribution, noncommercial, no derivative works and share alike. What does it mean:

Attribution	Noncommercial	No Derivative Works	Share Alike
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.	You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.	You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.	You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work

Creators choose the type of licences upon which they wish to share their work.
Some of the best known users of Creative Commons licenses are: Flickr, Google, Public Library of Science, Wikipedia and Al Jazeera.