In October 2014, the Open Knowledge Foundation approved the Creative Commons CC BY, CC BY-SA and CC0 licenses as conformant with the " Open Definition" for content and data.
While the Creative Commons license was originally grounded in the American legal system, there are now several Creative Commons jurisdiction ports which accommodate international laws. Released in November 2013, the 4.0 license suite is the most current. There have also been five versions of the suite of licenses, numbered 1.0 through 4.0. They were initially released on December 16, 2002, by Creative Commons, a U.S. Each license differs by several combinations that condition the terms of distribution. There are several types of Creative Commons licenses. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, they might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of a given work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author's work from concerns of copyright infringement as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license by which the author distributes the work. 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. This video explains how Creative Commons licenses can be used in conjunction with commercial licensing arrangementsĪ Creative Commons ( CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".