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CCO – No Rights Reserved
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This is public domain, all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because no one holds the exclusive rights, anyone can legally use or reference those works without permission.
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CC BY – Attribution
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This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
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CC BY-SA – Attribution ShareAlike
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This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
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CC BY-ND – Attribution NoDerivatives
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This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you.
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CC BY-NC – Attribution Non-Commercial
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This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
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CC BY-NC-SA – Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike
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This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
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CC BY-NC-ND – Attribution Non-Commercial NoDerivates
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This license is the most restrictive, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
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