What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public.
Why do people use Creative Commons? Creative commons is a set of licenses which automatically give you permission to dovarious things, such as reuse and distribute the content. It's then up to the specificCreative Commons (CC) license whether derivatives of the work are allowed, and whether the content can be used for commercial purposes.