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Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law. From the reuser’s perspective, the presence of a Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work answers the question, What can I do with this work?
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A Creative Commons ( CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". [a] A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that the author has created.
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Learn the considerations, options, and steps to apply a CC license or CC0 to your creative work. Find out how to use the CC License Chooser, mark your work with a CC license, and share it on various platforms.
