What is Creative Commons?

When you take a photo| make music or shoot a video it’s yours| you own it. You also own the copyright. Which means you decide how it is used and who can use it and if it can be copied and shared (or remixed). Creative Commons is a set of licenses that enable lawful collaboration to do things like copy| share and remix. Creative Commons is a way to give permission to everyone to freely reuse your creative works. Hundreds of sites use these licenses: Wikipedia| YouTube| Archive.org| Vimeo| Soundcloud| Flickr| Bandcamp| Boundless| Jamendo| TED| Musopen| The Metropolitan Museum of Art| Free Music Archive| Freesound.