Creative Commons License

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE

             The Creative Commons licenses are standardized way to grant copyright permissions of our e- creative work to others. Creative Commons license make it easy for users to share copyright works. The Creative Commons licenses ensure that others can copy and distribute your work, provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify.

License Elements

There are four Creative  Commons license elements.

•   ATTRIBUTION

• SHARE ALIKE

• NO-DERIVATIVES

• NON-COMMERCIAL

  

 ATTRIBUTION

This means that others must credit you as the original creator of the work. All Creative Commons licenses require users to provide attribution. 

SHARE ALIKE

This means that those who adapt or remix your work must use the same Creative Commons license on any derivative works.

NO-DERIVATIVES

This means that others can share your work, but they must not change it. Note that users still have the range of Fair Dealing rights granted to them under the Copyright Act 1994.

NON-COMMERCIAL

This means that others may not share, adapt or reuse use your work if their use is primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation.

The Six Common Creative Licenses   

1. Attribution.    CC BY

       

  

This license lets others to distribute, remix, modify, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered.

     2. Attribution-Share Alike.    CC BY-SA 

 

          

The users are allowed to remix, modify or build upon work with this license as long as the new creation is licensed under the same license.

    3. Attribution-No Derivatives.    CC BY-ND

          

You are allowed to distribute work with this license, even commercially as long as you use, distribute and publish it as a whole. (Not allowed to adapt, modify or remix.)

4  4. Attribution-Non Commercial.     CC BY-NC

         

This license lets others remix, adapt, modify and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

5   5. Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike.       CC BY-NC-SA     

            

This license lets others remix, modify, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

6   6. Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives.     CC BY-NC-ND

             

This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.