Creative Commons Licensing

Except where noted otherwise below in our Trademark Policy, all content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. We do not assert a copyright in the text of our licenses. Modified versions of our licenses, however, should not be labeled as ‘Creative Commons’ licenses.

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This website provides general information about legal topics but it does not provide individual legal advice. Creative Commons Corporation is not a law firm and does not provide legal services. Using this website or sending us email does not create an attorney-client relationship. Creative Commons provides this general legal information on an ‘as-is’ basis. Creative Commons makes no warranties regarding the general legal information provided on this website, and disclaims liability for damages resulting from its use.

Notice: We do not license works for money or help collect royalties.

Creative Commons Trademark policy

The double C in a circle, the words and logotype “Creative Commons,” Creative Commons license buttons, and any combination of the foregoing, whether integrated into a larger whole or standing alone, are Creative Commons’ trademarks. You are authorized to use our trademarks on the terms and conditions below, and only on the further condition that you download the trademarks directly from our website.

Corporate Logo and Logotype: Creative Commons licenses the use of its trademarked corporate logo (shown immediately to the right) on the condition that the trademark licensee use the mark to point to the Creative Commons homepage, https://creativecommons.org, and only to the Creative Commons homepage. Creative Commons retains full, unfettered, and sole discretion to revoke this trademark license for any reason whatsoever or for no specified reason.

Creative Commons Public Copyright License Marks: Creative Commons licenses the use of its trademarked CC logo in the context of its Public Copyright License Marks (shown immediately to the right) on the condition that licensee use the mark solely to point to a Creative Commons license or Commons deed on the Creative Commons server or otherwise uses it to describe the Creative Commons license that applies to a particular work; and provided that, to the extent the licensee is using the mark in an online environment, licensee does not alter or remove the hyperlink embedded in such logo as made available on Creative Commons webpage. Creative Commons retains full, unfettered, and sole discretion to revoke this trademark license for any reason whatsoever or for no specified reason. Creative Commons is particularly likely to revoke said license if, in its full, unfettered, and sole discretion, it finds that licensee’s use of the mark is likely to bring disrepute to licensor or its mark.

Public Domain Dedication Mark: Creative Commons licenses the use of its trademarked CC logo in the context of its Public Domain Dedication Mark (shown immediately to the right) on the condition that licensee use the mark solely to point to the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication on the Creative Commons server or otherwise uses it to describe that the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication applies to a particular work; and provided that, to the extent the licensee uses the mark in an online environment, licensee does not alter or remove the hyperlink embedded in such logo as made available on Creative Commons webpage. Creative Commons retains full, unfettered, and sole discretion to revoke this trademark license for any reason whatsoever or for no specified reason. Creative Commons is particularly likely to revoke said license if, in its full, unfettered, and sole discretion, it finds that licensee’s use of the mark is likely to bring disrepute to licensor or its mark.

Creative Commons License Buttons: The Creative Commons buttons that describe a key term of our license, such as BY, NC, ND, SA, Sampling, Sampling Plus and Noncommercial Sampling Plus may only be used in the context of pointing to a Creative Commons license on the Creative Commons server that includes that license term or to otherwise describe the Creative Commons license, that includes that license term and that applies to a particular work.

The Creative Commons buttons that describe one of our customized licenses, such as the Public Domain, Sampling, Developing Nations, Founder’s Copyright, CC-GNU-GPL, CC-GNU-LGPL and Music Sharing, respectively, may only be used in the context of pointing to the relevant Creative Commons license on the Creative Commons server or to otherwise describe the Creative Commons license that applies to a particular work. Creative Commons retains full, unfettered, and sole discretion to revoke this license for any reason whatsoever or for no specified reason. Creative Commons is particularly likely to revoke said license if, in its full, unfettered, and sole discretion, it finds that licensee’s use of the mark is likely to bring disrepute to licensor or its mark.

Copyright infringement notifications

If you have reason to believe that any material or activity on a site controlled or operated by Creative Commons (such as creativecommons.org, sciencecommons.org or ccmixter.org) is infringing of the right(s) owned by you or someone else, for whom you have authority to act, please follow our DMCA Notice & Takedown Procedure.

DISCLAIMER: Creative Commons provides public copyright licenses that anyone may use. We do not, however, control the use of Creative Commons licenses or have knowledge of whether the use of our licenses is authorized by the copyright owner. Additionally, Creative Commons has no control over third party websites, or over content belonging to persons or organizations other than Creative Commons. Any content hosted on a third party website is the responsibility of those sites, and not of Creative Commons, even if the content bears a Creative Commons license. If you are the copyright owner of content hosted on a third party site, and you have not authorized the use of your content, please contact the administrator of that website directly to have the content removed.

Other Content

The icons that make up our “Find” and “License” buttons that appear in the website header, visible on most pages, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license and form part of the Tango Desktop Project.

Other parts of the site may also include third party content that is licensed on different terms. Where that use is not a fair use, the different license terms of that content are either indicated or the content is acknowledged to be “Used with permission.”