As you know, under the free
Creative Commons license you can publish texts, music, photos and other artistic works. CC support is available, including on
Flickr photos and in
Google advanced search , as well as on specialized search engines for free licenses. With these tools you can find free content for use in their own purposes, including for commercial use and creative processing.
Creative Commons Types
CC-BY : copying, distribution, demonstration, modification and development of own works on the basis of this work is allowed, provided that the authorship of the original is mentioned. The result may be distributed under a different license, for example, a more closed one.
CC-NC (Non-commercial): copying, distribution, demonstration, modification, etc., is permitted, but only for non-commercial purposes.
CC-ND (No Derivative Works): it is forbidden to do derivative works.
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CC-SA (Share Alike): distribution, copying and modification of the work is allowed on the condition that the modified works will also be distributed under the terms of this license (that is, the modified work cannot be protected by copyright; the work will always remain free).
A Creative Commons license performs the same role for artwork as the GNU GPL for software code, while Creative Commons is a more flexible license. An author of a text, photo, or picture can choose which rights he wishes to reserve and which rights to transfer to society (the right of distribution, commercial use, modification, etc.). To mark your work, the author simply puts the icon of a suitable license, the link
Some rights reserved with the tag
rel = "license" . This ensures that the marked content will automatically fall into the Google search index for free content (the text that you read, respectively, will also go there). You can read more about microformat
rel = “license” here .
The version of Creative Commons 3.0 implemented
a number of innovations . First, it is further internationalization. The first versions of Creative Commons were based on American law and adapted for 30+ countries. Now a common basic version, independent of the country, based on international copyright laws has been created. Accordingly, the American version of Creative Commons is now just one of many national versions.
The second major innovation in Creative Commons 3.0 is the
adaptation to moral rights in different countries . Moral rights (including the right to mention the author, the right to the integrity of the work, the right to a pseudonym or anonymous authorship and other rights that do not relate to commercial relations) are an integral part of copyright, but still not in all countries and not in full least included in copyright law.
In addition, Creative Commons 3.0 introduced support for various types of collective copyright management societies. In different countries, these organizations have different rights.
The latest innovation in Creative Commons 3.0 is the ability to automatically license CC BY-SA 3.0 content that is published under other free licenses if they are
compatible with CC BY-SA 3.0.
The approval process for Creative Commons 3.0 has been quite lengthy due to the reconciliation of contradictions between all interested parties, including Debian and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more about this
here .