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What is Creative Commons?
https://creativecommons.org
Creative Commons (CC) is a 501(c)(3)nonprofit corporation that develops, supports,and stewards legal and technical infrastructurethat maximizes digital creativity, sharing, andinnovation.

How is Creative Commons useful?

What is the impact of Creative Commons?

CC licenses create a balance inside thetraditional “all rights reserved” copyright regime,
and help lower the transaction costs normallyassociated with seeking permission to use
works by granting some rights in advance. CC
supports access to knowledge by advancing an
opt-in, flexible approach to licensing creativecontent.

CC’s licenses and public domain tools are usedby individuals, cultural, educational, scientific andresearch institutions, governments, andcompanies worldwide. There are more than 400
million CC-licensed works published on the Web.
Creative Commons has worked with copyrightexperts around the world to make sure its
licenses are legally sound, operable worldwide,
and responsive to the needs of users. CC tools
are increasingly of interest to policymakers inthose areas where access to quality educational,
scientific, and cultural materials has been lessthan optimal.

Creative Commons is pleased to participate asa formal observer to WIPO, and has been
mentioned in several WIPO forums already,including the WIPO Committee on Development
and IP (CDIP) 4th Session (November 2009)
and 5th Session (April 2010), as well as theEnabling Creativity in the Digital Environment:
Copyright Documentation and Infrastructure
conference (October 2011).

What does Creative Commons provide?
Creative Commons offers a suite of freecopyright licenses that give creators a simple,
standardized way to retain their copyright whileallowing certain uses of their work — a “somerights reserved” approach to copyright.
CC licenses apply to works that are protectedby copyright law. The kinds of works that areprotected by copyright law include books,
websites, blogs, photographs, films, videos,songs, and other audio & visual recordings.
CC public domain tools, on the other hand,enable authors and copyright owners who want
to dedicate their works to the worldwide publicdomain to do so, and facilitate the labeling anddiscovery of works that are already free ofknown copyright restrictions.

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CC is the global standard for open content
licensing. CC licenses and tools are easy tounderstand and use, implementing a “3 layer”
framework that consists of 1) a deed that
simplifies the terms of each license into a few
universal icons and non-technical language,2) a license text, which has been vetted by aglobal team of legal experts, and 3) machinereadable code that enables search anddiscovery via search engines such as Google.

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• 30 national governments employ CC tools toclarify how their citizens and persons aroundthe world can reuse government-funded data,official reports and media, research, andeducational resources. By communicating theserights to users in advance, governments
support the efficient use of resources andencourage further innovation and creativity.

What is the impact of CC? (cont.)• The CC0 public domain dedication is used toremove copyright restrictions from data sets
used to conduct research to combat
diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.
Releasing data sets directly into the publicdomain via CC0 facilitates widespread use ofthat data by scientists around the world todevelop vaccines and other treatments.
• CC licenses provide the underlying
infrastructure that supports sharing and reuseof hundreds of thousands of Open
Educational Resources, from interactive
learning objects to high quality videos tocomplete courses. CC licensed educational
content can be easily discovered online, soteachers, students, and self-learners haveeasy access to resources they can reuse,revise, remix, and redistribute.
• The CC-powered Public Domain Mark will beused to label millions of out-of-copyrightworks shared via Europeana, allowing users
around the world to discover a rich trove ofliterature, art, and cultural public domain
works free of copyright restrictions.
• CC serves the needs of open accesspublishing around the world. Individuals andopen access journals use CC licensing torelease thousands of scholarly articles. CC
licensing makes this literature moreaccessible and useful by communicating
usage rights in advance, and sets up theconditions to enable important breakthroughs
in science, medicine, and technology.

Creative Commons Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Attribution (CC BY)
This license grants the public permission to reproduce,
distribute, and build upon the licensed work, including
for commercial purposes, as long as the rights holder isgiven credit for the original work.
Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
This license grants the public permission to reproduce,
distribute, and build upon the licensed work, including
for commercial purposes, as long as the rights holder isgiven credit for the original work and any new works arereleased under identical terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
This license grants the public permission to reproduce,
distribute, and build upon the licensed work for noncommercial purposes only, as long as the rights holder
is given credit for the original work
Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC BY-ND)
This license grants the public permission to reproduce
and distribute the licensed work in its original form only.
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike(CC BY-NC-SA)This license grants the public permission to reproduce,
distribute, and build upon the licensed work for noncommercial purposes, as long as the rights holder isgiven credit for the original work and any new works are
released under identical terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives(CC BY-NC-ND)
This license grants the public permission to reproduce
and distribute the licensed work in its original form andfor non-commercial purposes only.

Creative Commons Public Domain Tools
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/
CC0 Public Domain Dedication
CC0 enables owners of copyright-protected content towaive copyright interests in their works and thereby
place them as close as possible to the public domain.
Public Domain Mark
Public Domain Mark (PDM) is a tool that allows works
already in the public domain to be marked and tagged ina way that clearly communicates the work’s publicdomain status, and allows it to be easily discovered.

Creative Commons Affiliate Network
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Affiliate_Network

The CC Affiliate Network consists of 100+
affiliates working in over 70 jurisdictions tosupport and promote CC activities around theworld.