Creative Commons

Creative Commons was founded in 2001 by a group of people who wanted it to make it easier for individuals to copyright their work in the public domain. By 2003 nearly a million works were using the Creative Commons licenses. By 2006 the number grew to 50 million.

Creative Commons has established symbols that authors can use to clearly indicate the permissions they are granting users. To find out what the various CC symbols mean, click here. Creative Commons also provides a handy tool for authors to use in determining which symbols to use. To access the tool, click here.

Attribution: Allows others to amend your work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they give you credit as the original author. [CC BY]

Attribution No-Derivatives: Can be used and distributed by others, even for commercial purposes, but you must be shown as the author and the work cannot be changed from its original form. [CC-BY-ND]

Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike: Others can use your work, remix it, edit it for non-commercial use provided that they give you credit as the original author and then also distribute it under these same terms. In other words, they must be willing to let others share and edit their revised version. [CC BY NC SA]

Attribution Share Alike: Same as above, only commercial use is allowed. [CC BY SA]

Attribution Non-Commercial: Others can use the work, edit it, and distribute it for non-commercial purposes provided they credit you as the original author. They do not have to share the work under the same terms. In other words, they can share the work without allow future viewers the privilege of editing their modified version of the original work. [CC BY NC]

Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives: Others can download and share the work, but they cannot do so for commercial purposes, they must credit you as the original author, and they cannot modify the work. [CC BY NC ND]

References:

(2015, August). Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/