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Free Online Courses: Top 50 Sites to Get Educated for Free. Creative Commons Australia. What is a CC licence? The CC licences provide a simple standardised way for individual creators, companies and institutions to share their work with others on flexible terms without infringing copyright. The licences allow users to reuse, remix and share the content legally. Offering your work under a Creative Commons licence does not mean giving up your copyright. It means permitting users to make use of your material in various ways, but only on certain conditions. Licence terms: baseline permissions and core conditions The CC licences set out the uses that may lawfully be made of the copyright material and specifies the conditions which must be complied with when it is used.

There are six standardised CC licences. Each of the CC licences grants certain baseline permissions to users in advance, authorising them to use the material, provided they comply with core conditions, as well as other general terms in the licence. The other core conditions are: Current and previous versions of licences.

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