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Creative Commons

Creative Commons licenses allow creators to share their work while still retaining control of their creations. These licenses determine what can be done with a work and how it can be redistributed by people other than the creator. The work may be freely distributed under any of the licenses, but some licenses prevent modifications of the work (remixes) or forbid the work from being used for commercial purposes. The six Creative Commons licenses are:

Attribution (CC BY) - requires that redistributors credit the original author

Attribution-ShareAlike  (CC BY-SA) - rrequires that derivative works credit the original author and are redistributed under a similar license

Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND) - requires that redistributors credit the original author and that the work may not be modified/remixed

Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) - requires that redistributors credit the original author and that the work may not be used for commercial purposes

Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) - requires that redistributors credit the original author, that the work may not be used for commercial purposes, and that the work is redistributed under a similar license

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) - requires that redistributors credit the original author, that the work may not be used for commercial purposes, that the work may not be modified/remixed

Creators of works, even of non-commercial attributed works, may opt to waive a license so that they can attempt to turn a profit if they desire. 

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