Creative Commons — creativecommons.org — is a nonprofit organisation founded in 2001 to create more flexible forms of licencing copyright for the digital age. There are now nearly 300 million Creative Commons licences on the web in music, film and text.

Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally

Creative Commons provides free tools that lets authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

CC+
CC+ is a Creative Commons licence plus an additional agreement that provides more Permissions. For example, this might allow users to secure commercial rights or grant permission to use a work without attribution. CC+ gives businesses a simple way to move between the sharing and commercial economies. read more

An overview of CC and CC+ can be downloaded here.

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