Creative Commons license
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A Creative Commons license is a set of public copyright licenses that let creators share their work for free while keeping some control over how it's used. These licenses matter because they make it easier for people to legally use, share, and build upon creative works without having to ask permission or negotiate individual deals.
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A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work" for public good. A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that the author has created. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, they might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of a given work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author's work from concerns of copyright infringement as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license by which the author distributes the work.