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Creative CommonsCreative Commons is a nonprofit organization that works toincrease the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, andscientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that isavailable to the public for free and legal sharing, use,repurposing, and remixing.Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilitiesbetween full copyright and the public domain. From all rightsreserved to no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep yourcopyright while allowing certain uses of your work — a “somerights reserved” copyright.-http://creativecommons.org/about/what-is-cc

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The LicensesAttribution Share Alike: This license lets others remix, tweak,and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as longas they credit you and license their new creations under theidentical terms. This license is often compared to open sourcesoftware licenses. All new works based on yours will carry thesame license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

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The LicensesAttribution Non-Commercial Share Alike: This license letsothers remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their newcreations under the identical terms. Others can download andredistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but theycan also translate, make remixes, and produce new storiesbased on your work. All new work based on yours will carry thesame license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial innature. http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

The LicensesAttribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives: This license isthe most restrictive of our six main licenses, allowingredistribution. This license is often called the “free advertising”license because it allows others to download your works andshare them with others as long as they mention you and linkback to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use themcommercially. http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

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