Baseline Rights

All Creative Commons licenses have many important features in common.

Every license will help you

retain your copyright announce that other peopleâ€™s fair use, first sale, and free expression rights are not affected by the license.

Every license requires licensees

to get your permission to do any of the things you choose to restrict â€” e.g., make a commercial use, create a derivative work; to keep any copyright notice intact on all copies of your work; to link to your license from copies of the work; not to alter the terms of the license not to use technology to restrict other licenseesâ€™ lawful uses of the work

Every license allows licensees, provided they live up to your conditions,

to copy the work to distribute it to display or perform it publicly to make digital public performances of it (e.g., webcasting) to shift the work into another format as a verbatim copy

Every license

applies worldwide lasts for the duration of the workâ€™s copyright is not revocable

Note that this list of features does not apply to the Public Domain Dedication, our Sampling Licenses, or Founderâ€™s Copyright.

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