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# Creative Commons
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Creative Commons (CC) is the forefront [non-profit](non_profit.md) organization promoting [free culture](free_culture.md), i.e. basically relaxation of ["intellectual property"](intellectual_property.md) (such as [copyright](copyright.md)) in [art](art.md). One of the most important contributions of the organization are the widely used Creative Commons [licenses](license.md) which artists may use to make their works more legally free and even put them to the [public domain](public_domain.md).
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Generally speaking Creative Commons brought a lot of good -- not only did it bring attention to the issues of "[intellectual property](intellectual_property.md)", it made a huge number of people and organizations actually relax or completely waive their rights on works they create. We, [LRS](lrs.md), especially appreciate the [CC0](cc0.md) public domain waiver that we prefer for our own works, like did many others, and other licenses such as CC BY-SA are still popular and better than "all rights reserved". However Creative Commons is still a big, centralized organization prone to corruption, it will most definitely suffer the same degeneration as any other organization in history, so don't get attached to it.
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## Licenses
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Creative commons [licenses](license.md)/waivers form a **[spectrum](spectrum.md)** spanning from complete freedom (CC0, [public domain](public_domain.md), no conditions on use) to complete [fascism](fascism.md) (prohibiting basically everything except for non-commercial sharing). This means that **NOT all Creative Commons licenses are [free cultural](free_culture.md) licenses** -- this is acknowledged by Creative Commons and has been intended. Keep in mind that as a good human you mustn't ever use licenses with [NC](nc.md) (non-commercial use only) or [ND](nd.md) (no derivatives allowed) clauses, these make your work non-free and therefore unusable.
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Here is a comparison of the Creative Commons licenses/waivers, from most free (best) to least free (worst):
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| name |abbreviation|free culture|use |share |remix |copyleft|attribution|non-commercial|comment |
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|---------------------------------------------------|------------|------------|-------|-------|-------|--------|-----------|--------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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| [Creative Commons Zero](cc0.md) | CC0 | yes :) |yes :) |yes :) |yes :) | no :) |no need :) | no :) |[public domain](public_domain.md), copyright [waiver](waiver.md), no restrictions, most freedom, best, sadly doesn't waive patents and trademraks|
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| Creative Commons Attribution | CC BY | yes?* |yes?* |yes :) |yes :) | no :) |forced :( | no :) | requires attribution to authors, `*`: limits some uses ("anti DRM"), rejected by [copyfree](copyfree.md), rather don't use |
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| Creative Commons Sharealike | CC SA | yes :) |yes :) |yes :) |yes :) | yes :/ |no need :) | no :) | retired, secret license, no longer recommended by CC, pure copyleft/sharealike without forced attribution |
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| Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike | CC BY-SA | yes :) |yes :) |yes :) |yes :) | yes :/ |forced :( | no :) | requires attribution to authors and copyleft (sharing under same terms) |
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| Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial | CC BY-NC | NO! :((( |yes but|yes but|yes but| yes :/ |forced :( | yes :( | [proprietary](proprietary.md) fascist license prohibiting commercial use, DO NOT USE |
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| Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivs | CC BY-ND | NO! :((( |yes but|yes but|NO! :( | yes :/ |forced :( | no but | [proprietary](proprietary.md) fascist license prohibiting modifications, DO NOT USE |
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|Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivs| CC BY-NC-ND| NO! :((( |yes but|yes but|NO! :( | yes :/ |forced :( | yes :( | [proprietary](proprietary.md) fascist license prohibiting commercial use and even modifications, DO NOT USE |
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| none (all rights reserved) | | NO! :((( |NO! :( |NO! :( |NO! :( |FUCK YOU|FUCK YOU | FUCK YOU | [proprietary](proprietary.md) fascist option, prohibits everything, DO NOT USE |
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## See Also
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- [free culture](free_culture.md)
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- [free software](free_software.md)
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