creative commons explained

Creative Commons

• Nonprofit corporation

• Consistent with copyright rules

• Free licences & other legal tools

• Freedom to decide for others to:

• Share

• Remix

• Use commercially or not

(source: Creative Commons).

Marcel Duchamp (1919)

La Gioconda with a Moustache

Attribution

• Others can copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.

Share Alike

• Others can distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Noncommercial

• Others can copy, distribute, display and perform your work but for noncommercial purposes only.

No Derivative Works

• Others can copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works.