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You will normally find a number of these elements have been added together to produce a licence. Here are some common examples:

  • CC-BY CC-BY lets you distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon a work, even commercially, as long as you credit the creator.
  • CC-BY-SA CC-BY-SA lets you distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon a work, even commercially, as long as you credit the creator and license your new creations under identical terms.
  • CC-BY-ND CC-BY-ND allows redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as the content is passed along unchanged and you credit the creator.
  • CC-BY-NC CC-BY-NC lets you distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon a work non-commercially, as long as you credit the creator.

CC0 – Public domain licence

CC0 There is one CC licence that we have not yet mentioned. CC0, or a public domain licence, lets creators place their content in the public domain so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the work for any purpose without any restrictions. This means that you don’t need to give credit to the creators when you reuse their work and that you can alter it freely. An example of this would be the Open Clipart collection, where you can reuse items without having to even attribute the source.