{"id":193,"date":"2021-12-10T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T11:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/?p=193"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:33:33","slug":"what-are-the-six-creative-commons-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/10\/what-are-the-six-creative-commons-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the six Creative Commons licences?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When combined, the four licence elements<\/a> form the six CC licences:<\/p>\n\n\n

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CC BY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Attribution <\/span><\/strong>lets others distribute, remix, tweak and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as it is credited to the original owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY \u2013 Credit must be given to the creator<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CC BY NC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Attribution-NonCommercial<\/span><\/strong> lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially. Although the new works must acknowledge the original owner and be non-commercial, they don\u2019t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY – Credit must be given to the creator<\/sup>
NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BY SA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Attribution-ShareAlike<\/span><\/strong> lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as the original copyright owner is credited and the new creation is licensed under identical terms.
All new works will carry the same licence so that any derivatives will allow commercial use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY – Credit must be given to the creator<\/sup>
SA \u2013 Adaptations must be shared under the same terms<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BY ND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Attribution-NoDerivs<\/span><\/strong> allows for commercial and non-commercial redistribution as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the original copyright owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY \u2013 Credit must be given to the creator<\/sup>
ND \u2013 No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BY NC SA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/span><\/strong> lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the original owner is credited and the licence of the new creation is under identical terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY \u2013 Credit must be given to the creator<\/sup>
NC – Only non-commercial uses of the work are permitted<\/sup>
SA \u2013 Adaptations must be shared under the same terms<\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CC BY NC ND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs<\/span><\/strong> is the most restrictive of the six licences, allowing others to download and share work, as long as they credit it to the original copyright owner; however, works cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY \u2013 Credit must be given to the creator<\/sup>
NC – Only non-commercial uses of the work are permitted<\/sup>
No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition, CC also has two public domain tools<\/a>, though they are not licences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forward to How do the Creative Commons licences work technically? <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to What are the elements of the Creative Commons?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to Creative Commons licences<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adapted from “About CC Licenses<\/a>” \u00a9 Creative Commons. Licensed under a CC BY 4.0 licence.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author takes no responsibility for the content of this page, which is not intended as binding legal advice. The views are about copyright in the UK Higher Education sector context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When combined, the four licence elements form the six CC licences: Attribution lets others distribute, remix, tweak and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as it is credited to the original owner. BY \u2013 Credit must be given to the creator Attribution-NonCommercial lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially. Although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[89,96,98,99,97,87,31,32],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-commons","tag-cc-by","tag-cc-by-nc","tag-cc-by-nc-nd","tag-cc-by-nc-sa","tag-cc-by-nd","tag-cc-by-sa","tag-creative-commons","tag-open-licence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}