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The '''Creative Commons''' is an 
American [[non-profit]] organisation that tries to make creative work available for others to use and share.
== Aim ==
Their website allows [[copyright]] holders to give some of their rights to any other people. They still keep some other rights. They do this through [[license]]s and [[contract]]s. Some of these make the work [[public domain]] or [[open content]]. They do this because [[copyright|copyright law]] can stop people sharing information.

The project has different free licenses. A person who has copyright can choose which one they want to use when they publish their work. They also provide [[Resource Description Framework|RDF]]/[[XML]] [[metadata]]. These say what the licenses are and make it easier to automatically sort out and find work that has these licenses. They also provide a 'Founder's Copyright' contract.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://creativecommons.org/%20projects/founderscopyright |title=Founders' Copyright - Creative Commons |access-date=2017-10-26 |archive-date=2013-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118075235/http://creativecommons.org/%20projects/founderscopyright |url-status=dead }}</ref> This aims to give the same effects as the original [[United States|US]] Copyright did.
== History ==
Creative Commons was officially started in [[2001]].

[[Lawrence Lessig]] is the founder and chairman of Creative Commons. Lessig started it as a way of reaching the goals of his Supreme Court case, [[Eldred v. Ashcroft]].
== Localisation ==
The ''iCommons'' (International Commons) is one of the Creative Commons projects. They improve the wording of the licenses and make them usable in other countries. The first ones dealt with US law only. As of February 4, [[2004]], [[Canada]], the [[People's Republic of China]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Japan]], the [[Republic of China]] (Taiwan), the [[Republic of Ireland]], and the [[United Kingdom]] have joined this project.<ref>[http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Affiliate_Network CC Affiliate Network - CC Wiki]</ref>

Projects that use Creative Commons licenses include [[LOCA Records]], [[Magnatune]], [[Opsound]], [[Opcopy]], [[Wikitravel]], [[iRATE radio]] and the fiction of [[Cory Doctorow]].

== Creative Commons Media ==
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File:Lawrence Lessig (9).jpg|[[Lawrence Lessig]] (January 2008)

File:Creative Commons Japan Seminar-200709-1.jpg|Creative Commons Japan Seminar, [[Tokyo]] (2007)

File:Creativecommons spanien.jpg|A sign in a pub in [[Granada]] notifies customers that the music they are listening to is freely distributable under a Creative Commons license.

File:Made-with-cc.pdf|''Made with Creative Commons'', a 2017 book describing the value of CC licenses

File:Defining noncommercial Creative Commons 2009.pdf|"Defining 'Noncommercial{{' "}}, a 2009 report from Creative Commons on the concept of noncommercial media
</gallery>
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Other websites ==
* [[:en:Creative Commons License|Article on the Creative Commons License on the English Wikipedia]]
* [https://creativecommons.org/ The creativecommons.org website]
* [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/ A short Flash animation talking about Creative Commons]
* [https://creativecommons.org/projects/international International Commons: Creative Commons initiatives outside the United States].
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