Category:Creative Commons

The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons Licenses.

The Creative Commons enables copyright holders to grant some of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information.

— Excerpted from Creative Commons on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

Legend: by attribution; nc noncommerical; nd no derivatives; sa share alike.

Creative Commons Licenses in English
Country	by	by-sa	by-nd	by-nc	by-nc-sa	by-nc-nd	pd		Country	by	by-sa	by-nd	by-nc	by-nc-sa	by-nc-nd	pd
Generic	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	1.0		Philippines	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0
Australia	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5			Singapore	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0
Canada	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5			South Africa	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5
Hong Kong	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0			UK: England & Wales	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
India	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5			UK: Scotland	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5
Malta	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5			United States	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	1.0
New Zealand	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0

Creative Commons Policies: "We do not assert a copyright in the text of our licenses." However, "Creative Commons" and logos are trademarked. For more, read the Creative Commons Policies.