"Acclimate" by General Fuzz; "Quand on a pas ce que l’on aime" by Both; "On Off" by Fredrik Jonassen; and "Falling into the Dream" by Bruce H. McCosar are all licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

"Hot July" by Monk Turner and "I've Got the Blues" by bluesXstended are both licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

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Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright — all rights reserved — and the public domain — no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work — a “some rights reserved†copyright.

Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control — a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which “all rights reserved†(and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy — a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation — once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally — have become endangered species.

Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare “some rights reserved.†If you like what we do, please...

Click on the icon above and it will take you to our nifty online store, so you can stock up on CC gear, including T-shirts with cool logos and designs - that will show your support and help spread the word about Creative Commons! Also, we would love it if you would...

Check out Ryan Junnel's new video about Creative Commons. Ryan produced the first, and wildly popular animation about Creative Commons called "Get Creative" four years ago - and now he's done it again. "Wanna Work Together?" does an amazing job of explaining the basic premise behind Creative Commons and what CC licenses can do for you.

Here's CC's Australia's animation Mayer and Bettle by Pete Foley, Chris Perren, and Elliott Bledsoe..