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Wikipedia:Creative Commons

A sign in a pub in Granada notifies customers that the music they are listening to is freely distributable under a Creative Commons license. Creative Commons ( CC ) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California , United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. [ 1 ] The organization has released several copyright - licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.

Licenses

Our public copyright licenses incorporate a unique and innovative “three-layer” design. Each license begins as a traditional legal tool, in the kind of language and text formats that most lawyers know and love. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/