Creative+Commons

=Creative Commonstoc=

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

What is C.C. involved with?
One of the most relevant sites regarding information on Canadian copyright is Creative Commons.


 * It was founded in 2001 and by 2009 had over 350 million CC licenced works.


 * It is a gobal site with over 100+ affiliates in 70 jurisdictions dealing with copyright licencing of music, pictures, poetry, books and more on the internet.


 * They promote universal access for science, education and culture however there are strict copyright licencing laws that were created before the Internet that have made access on the internet restricted.

How does C.C. work?
The Creative Commons copyright licencing is based on a three layer tier that starts with the **Legal Code** in 'legalese language' and translates that into a **Commons Deed** or 'everyday language' so regular people can understand it and then translates it again into a **CC Rights Expression Language** or 'computer language' so the software can understand it.

Creative Commons is a site that acts as a mediating platform between the Author/Creator and the Internet Public to allow different levels of access to use their creation, from articles that are in the 'public domain' to others 'with some rights reserved' or 'fair use' granted by the creators.

Six core levels of copyright have been created for access that conforms to international treaties on copyright laws that allows content to be, copied, remixed, edited, distributed and built upon.

What are the six core levels of copyright?

 * **Attribution ** (CC BY)
 * This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.


 * **Attribution ShareAlike ** (CC BY SA)
 * 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.


 * **Attribution-NoDerivs ** (CC BY ND)
 * This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.


 * **Attribution-NonCommercial ** (CC BY NC)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">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.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike ** (CC BY NC SA)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">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.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; overflow: hidden;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs ** (CC BY NC ND)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, 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.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|https://creativecommons.org] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> []