Creative Commons is an organization that helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world. Creative Commons provides free, easy-to-use copyright licenses to make a simple and standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work--on conditions of your choice
-Creative Commons, 2017
Creative Commons is an organization that developed a set of copyright licenses for creators to apply to their works, helping authors, artists, and other creators establish the boundaries of permissible use they want to place on their works.
Creative Commons licenses are based on existing copyright law, and are simple to understand. Visit our Copyright Information guide for more details!
"Creative works that are not protected by copyright are said to be in the 'public domain', a vast commons of material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction."