This document discusses and compares copyrights and Creative Commons licenses. It explains that copyright gives the owner exclusive rights over a work, while Creative Commons licenses allow some rights to be reserved. There are 6 main Creative Commons licenses that vary in whether they allow commercial use, modifications, and require similar licensing of derivatives. The licenses provide standardized ways for creators to share their work and for others to use it within certain parameters.

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2. Copyrights Vs Creative Commons
Copyrights
All Rights Reserve
• Re-use requires the
permission from owner
Creative Commons
Some Rights Reserved
• Re-use is permitted
without permission under
the specifications shared in
the license

3. Copyrights
Copyright refers to the legal right of the owner of intellectual property. In
simpler terms, copyright is the right to copy.
Under copy rights, the phrase “All Rights Reserved” is often used by
owners to indicate that they reserve all of the rights granted to them
under the law.
Copyright relates to literary and artistic creations, such as books, music,
paintings and sculptures, films and technology-based works (such as
computer programs and electronic databases).
Copyright protects the owner of the exclusive property rights against
those who copy or otherwise take and use the particular form in which
the original work was expressed.
When someone copies or edits a work that is protected under copyright
without permission, the owner may sue for the value of the violation
Most such cases are handled by civil law. In more serious cases, a person
who copies a work that is protected under copyright could be arrested,
fined or even go to prison

4. Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization that enables sharing and reuse
of creativity and knowledge through the provision of free legal tools.
Creative Commons licenses and tools were designed specifically to work with
the web, which makes content that is offered under their terms easy to search
for, discover, and use.
These legal tools help;
o those who want to encourage reuse of their works by offering them for use under
generous, standardized terms
o those who want to make creative uses of works and
o those who want to benefit from this symbiosis.
Creative Common provides six core licenses, each of which allow members of the
public to use the material in different ways include certain standard rights and
obligations.

5. These license are;
1. By Attribution
2. By Attribution-ShareAlike
3. By Attribution-NonCommercial
 Although Creative Commons is best known for its licenses listed above,
many work extends beyond just providing copyright licenses.
 Creative Common offers other legal and technical tools that also facilitate
sharing and discovery of creative works, such as CC0, a public domain
dedication for rights holders who wish to put their work into the public
domain before the expiration of copyright, and
 the Public Domain Mark, a tool for marking a work that is in the worldwide
public domain.
4. By Attribution-No derivatives
5. By Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives
6. By Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Creative Commons cont…

6. Creative Common License
1. By Attribution [CC BY]
 This one is likely the most straightforward of all the Creative
Commons licenses because it’s the one they all build from. You
have to give credit to the creator.
 This license requires anyone who uses the copyrighted work to
provide appropriate credit and indicate what, if any, changes
were made.
 This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build
upon the material in any medium or format, so long as
attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for
commercial use.

7. Creative Common License
2. By Attribution-ShareAlike [CC BY-SA]
 Credit must be given to the creator
 Adaptations must be shared under the same terms
 In plain English, it means that once you complete your changes to
the underlying work then your new work, when shared, carries with it
the exact same license and you can not prohibit others from
changing or sharing your work.
 This license is the foundation for the idea of open-source works
where various people improve upon others work.
 Without share-alike, derivative works might be sublicensed with
compatible but more restrictive license clauses

8. Creative Common License
3. By Attribution-NonCommercial [CC BY-NC]
Licensed works are free to use / share /remix with attribution, but
does not permit commercial use of the original work
Credit must be given to the
Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and
make derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-
commercial purposes.

9. Creative Common License
4. By Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike [CC BY-NC-SA]
 This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your
work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and
license their new creations under the identical terms.
 Credit must be given to the creator
 Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
 No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted
 Licensed works are free to use/ share/ remix with attribution,
but does not permit commercial use of the original work

10. Creative Common License
5. By Attribution-NoDerivs [CC BY-ND]
 You have to give credit, or used in the Creative Commons
license “appropriate credit”, but you can’t change the work in
any way.
 Licensed work are free to use/ share with attribution, but does
not permit derivative works from the original.
 In plain English, this license means you can use the work for
ANY – commercial, non-commercial, educational, work,
gaming, or what have you – purpose, so long as you provide
the license-required credit and not alter the work in any way.

11. Creative Common License
6. By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs [CC BY-NC-ND]
 With this license, all you’re allowed to do is share it for free with
other people and in doing so give credit to the original creator.
 Of course, you must provide “appropriate credit”, but you can
not modify the work in any manner then distribute it even if the
distribution is not for commercial gain.
Does not permit any commercial use or derivatives of the original
work
This license is the most restrictive of the Creative Common Licenses,
and is often regarded as a free advertising license.

12. References
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