CREATIVE COMMONS Definition & Meaning

Creative Commons

noun

Sometimes creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): a creative commons license.
We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons;
a creative commons license.
the nonprofit organization that releases these licenses.

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Origin of Creative Commons¹

First recorded in 2000–05

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This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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Legally, Wikipedia allows users to copy, modify, or publish Wikipedia content if the user attributes the source and shares the result under the same terms of its Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike license.

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Fitzgerald also sees Google’s fingerprints on Creative Commons’ embrace of the argument that AI art is fair use, as Google is a major funder of the organization.

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It also asserts she lifted an image without crediting the source as required by a Creative Commons license.

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Bordering one side of the town square is the new “Creative Commons” area, with interactive stations for creative play that have been designed with guidance from the Lego Foundation, in its first partnership with an art museum.

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