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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This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
Legally, Wikipedia allows users to copy, modify, or publish Wikipedia content if the user attributes the source and shares the result under the same terms of its Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike license.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 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
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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