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CC offers its licenses, code, and tools to the public free of charge, without obligation. You do not need to register with Creative Commons to apply a CC license to your material; it is legally valid as soon as you apply it to any material you have the legal right to license.

Creative Commons works within copyright law. It allows creators to grant permission to everyone in the world to use their work in certain ways. Watch the Get Creative video on the origins of Creative Commons licenses.

Make sure to name the specific CC license the material is under and link to it, eg. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License with a link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Don't just say the material is Creative Commons, because that says nothing about how the material can actually be used.

The latest version of the Creative Commons licenses is version 4.0. You should always use the latest version of the Creative Commons licenses in order to take advantage of the many improvements described on the license versions page.

CC0 is a license that allows copyright owners to release their works with no restrictions at all. Images under public domain or CC0-License can be used by anyone for any purpose.

The Creative Commons License Options There are six different license types, listed from most to least permissive here: CC BY: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator.

Attributing Creative Commons imagesTitle: The title of the image.Author: The name of the creator.Source: The URL where the image is hosted (plus optional link to author profile).License: The type of Creative Commons license it is available under, including a link to the relevant license.