IPT692R: Creative Commons Licenses

Licenses Creative Commons Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization founded by Lawrence Lessig (Stanford University) and James Boyle (Duke Law School), inspired by the work of Richard Stallman (GNU General Public License) and the work of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Creative Commons can not be considered as organization a management rights or an intermediary between authors, rights holders and users. Creative Commons licenses adapted to the laws of individual countries ( http://creativecommons.org/international/ ).

Creative Commons Licenses License Conditions:

Attribution: The creator allows you to copy, distribute and perform the work while recognizing and properly cite the original author.
Noncommercial: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and perform the work until it is used for commercial purposes.
No Derivative Works: The creator allows you to copy, distribute and publicly communicate unaltered copies of the work, but not make derivative works of them.
Share Alike: It allows to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to that which governs the original work.

Creative Commons Licenses The licenses:

Attribution: Lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution.
Attribution Share Alike: Lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.

Creative Commons Licenses

Attribution No Derivatives: Allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
Attribution Non-Commercial : Lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike : Lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature.

Non- Commercial No Derivatives : Is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the free advertising license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially.

List of licenses:

Against DRM ( http://www.freecreations.org/Against_DRM2.html )
BSD-like non-copyleft licenses ( http://freedomdefined.org/Existing_Movements#Free_Softw are )
Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY. Current version: 3.0)

Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA. Current version: 3.0)
Design Science License ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html )
FreeBSD Documentation License ( http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html )
Free Art License (FAL. Current version: 1.3)
GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL. Current version: 1.3)
GNU General Public License (GNU GPL. Current version: 3.0)
Lizenz für Freie Inhalte Lizenz für Freie Inhalte (LFFI)
MIT License ( http://www.opensource.org/osi3.0/licenses/mit-license.php )

Creative Commons Licenses Criteria for choosing a license: