• What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons (CC) is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creative works and knowledge through their CC licenses. They allow work to be reused without permission when certain conditions are fulfilled. There are four conditions (BY, SA, NC, and ND) and their works can be licensed in six different ways. See the chart to the left to learn more. 

• CC for Adopting: You are allowed to reuse an OER or other work with a CC license without permission as long as conditions of the license are followed.

• CC for Creating: You can freely share your work and keep your copyright. The most common way to make your work an OER is to add a CC license to it. The license you choose describes conditions for your work to be shared, distributed or remixed. 

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