Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered
in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding
the range of creative works available for others to build upon
legally and to share. The organization has released several
copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of
charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to
communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they
waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy-
to-understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated
visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons
license. Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright, but
are based upon it. They replace individual negotiations for
specific rights between copyright owner (licensor) and licensee,
which are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright
management with a "some rights reserved" management employing
standardized licenses for re-use cases where no commercial
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