What does it mean if no derivatives is required to use a Creative Commons license?
No Derivatives licenses (CC BY-ND and CC BY-NC-ND) allow people to copy and distribute a work but prohibit them from adapting, remixing, transforming, translating, or updating it, in any way that makes a derivative.
What does this Creative Commons license restrict?
Do Creative Commons licenses affect exceptions and limitations to copyright, such as fair dealing and fair use? No. By design, CC licenses do not reduce, limit, or restrict any rights under exceptions and limitations to copyright, such as fair use or fair dealing.
Is Creative Commons a viral license?
This is Creative Commons’ version of a copyleft license (a type of open source software license that makes the license permissions viral by design), and is the license required for the content uploaded to Wikipedia, for example.
Do you need a Creative Commons license for GitHub?
While the “No Derivative” options do not make sense for GitHub (no fork allowed), at least the most popular Creative Commons licenses should be included: CC-BY-NC-SA: Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike
Can you change the terms of a Creative Commons license?
Yes—but if you change the terms and conditions of any Creative Commons license, you must no longer call, label, or describe the license as a “Creative Commons” or “CC” license, nor can you use the Creative Commons logos, buttons, or other trademarks in connection with the modified license or your materials.
What’s the difference between Creative Commons and copyright?
Is Creative Commons against copyright? What does “Some Rights Reserved” mean? Can Creative Commons give legal advice about its licenses or other tools, or help with CC license enforcement? Does Creative Commons collect or track material licensed under a CC license? What do the Creative Commons buttons do?
What do you need to know about Creative Commons?
Creative Commons licenses provide an easy way to manage the copyright terms that attach automatically to all creative material under copyright. Our licenses allow that material to be shared and reused under terms that are flexible and legally sound. Creative Commons offers a core suite of six copyright licenses.
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