Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a type of copyleft license which lets the author give away some monopoly over some of his right under copyright protection, e.g. the right to reproduce. Often it is referred to as CC.

Types

There are broadly six types of Creative Commons licenses depending on what they do.

1. CC-BY

2. CC-BY-SA

3. CC-BY-ND

4. CC-BY-NC

5. CC-BY-NC-SA

6. CC-BY-NC-ND