Creative Commons
Americannoun
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Sometimes creative commons a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): a creative commons license.
We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons;
a creative commons license.
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the nonprofit organization that releases these licenses.
Etymology
Origin of Creative Commons
First recorded in 2000–05
Example Sentences
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Wikipedia’s information is available under a Creative Commons license—it’s freely licensed.
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2025
This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
It also asserts she lifted an image without crediting the source as required by a Creative Commons license.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024
The entries are licensed under Creative Commons, an alternative copyright model that lets anybody remix or build on a work.
From The Verge ● Nov. 17, 2021
Windermere, FL 34786 The Mathematical-Historical Principles and the Evolution of Liberty This book is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States license.
From The Mathematical-Historical Principles and the Evolution of Liberty by Víctor José Fernández Bolívar
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