Creative Commons

Abstract:

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.

We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them to declare "some rights reserved."

Thus, a single goal unites Creative Commons' current and future projects: to build a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules.

Languages:

English

Content Type:

Organizations and Associations

Content Topic:

Intellectual Property

Conditions of Use:

No License