CC Licenses 

Creative Commons is an American non-profit organization that supports people to grow and sustain the commons of shared knowledge and culture.

The organization has released several copyright licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public. These licenses allow authors of creative works to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they disclaim for the benefit of recipients or other creators. Creative Commons licenses give standard releases that replace the individual negotiations for specific rights between the copyright owner (licensor) and licensee, which are necessary under an “all rights reserved” copyright management. At the same time, content owners still maintain their copyright.  

Six regularly used licenses: 

CC BY License (required for NCN projects)

Attribution – this license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.

CC BY SA License

Attribution-ShareAlike – this license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

CC BY NC License 

CC BY NC License  – this license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

CC BY ND License

CC BY ND License – this license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you. .

CC BY NC SA License

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike  – this license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. .

CC BY NC ND License

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs   – this license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially. 

CC0 Public Domain  

Public domain lets others freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purpose without restriction under copyright or database law. 

You can read more about licenses – Creative Commons – Licenses List