Creative Commons

This article is about the organization. For their published licenses, see Creative Commons license.

Creative Commons

Founded	January 15, 2001 (2001-01-15)
Founder	Lawrence Lessig
Type	501(c)(3)
Focus	Expansion of "reasonable", flexible copyright
Method	Creative Commons license
Key people	Cable Green (CEO)
Website	Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy-to-understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright but are based upon it. They replace individual negotiations for specific rights between copyright owner (licensor) and licensee, which are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright management, with a "some rights reserved" management employing standardized licenses for re-use cases where no commercial compensation is sought by the copyright owner. The result is an agile, low-overhead and low-cost copyright-management regime, benefiting both copyright owners and licensees.

External links

• Creative Commons
• Creative Commons wiki
• Creative Commons at Wikipedia, the free Terran encyclopedia that anyone can edit.