Creative commons
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Law - intellectual property - copyright - licence.
Copyright is the exclusive right to reproduce - or to authorise others to reproduce - software, artistic, dramatic literary or musical works.
Copyright owners can license others to use their copyright material, under the terms of the licence.
Creative commons are a series of different general licences, that allow a degree of use to all other potential users, subject to the terms of the type of creative commons licence.
The copyright holder who wants to allow sharing, grants an appropriate creative commons licence.
Under all creative commons licences, the source of the material used must be cited.
See also
- Confidence
- Copyright
- Design
- Fair dealing
- Fair use
- Intangible assets
- Intellectual property
- Law
- Open source
- Patent
- Royalty
- Software
- Withholding tax
