Types of Creative Commons Licensing

                    August Sky By Pat Dalton
                          Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs              


In today's society, Creating Commons Licensing could be a very important tool, which give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.
Generally, there are 6 types creative commons licenses.

1. Attribution: This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.
2. Attribution-ShareAlike: This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. And this license is often compared to "copyleft" free and open source software licenses.
3. Attribution-NoDerivs: This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
4. Attribution-NonCommercial: This license lets others remix, tweak, 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.
5. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
6. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs: This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to down load 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.

More information please look at About The Licenses