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Creative Commons works to increase sharing, collaboration and innovation worldwide. Learn More »
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About the Licences

Offering your work under a Creative Commons licence does not mean giving up your copyright. It means
allowing more liberal use of your material, but only on certain conditions.

Each Creative Commons licence comes with the same baseline user rights and restrictions.
(http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/fullrights) These allow the material to be copied, distributed and
reused, at a minimum in its current form, for non-commercial purposes, and as long as the original creator/s are
credited.

The short link for this page is http://creativecommons.org.au/licences

(http://creativecommons.org.au/licences) .

Licence terms
These baseline rights can be modified by adding the extra licensing terms below. You can mix and match these
to create a licence that defines exactly how you want your work to be used. For example, you may want to
release your work under an Attribution licence, or you may want to use an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
licence. A full list and description of the Creative Commons licences is provided further down the page.

No Derivative
Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike
Works
BY NC SA
ND

This applies to
every Creative
Commons work. Allows others to
Lets others
 Whenever a distribute, remix, adapt and
work is copied Lets others build on the
display and
or redistributed copy, distribute, work, but only if
perform only
under a Creative display and they distribute
verbatim copies
Commons perform the work the derivative
of the work.
licence, the for works under the
They may not
original creator noncommercial same the licence
adapt or change
(and any other purposes only. terms that
the work in any
nominated way. govern the
parties) must be original work.
credited and the
source linked to.

A licence cannot feature both the Share Alike and No Derivative Works
options. The Share Alike requirement applies only to derivative works.

The Licences
When you publish your work (http://creativecommons.org/choose) using a Creative Commons licence, you can
select which of these licence elements suits you. This in turn creates the six core Creative Commons licences
listed below. We have listed them starting with the most liberal licence and ending with the most restrictive
licence. You can download a printable fact sheet about the licences here (/learn-more/fact-sheets/what-are-the-
creative-commons-licences-factsheet) .

Attribution
CC BY

This licence lets others distribute, remix and build upon a work, even commercially, as long as they credit the
original creator/s (and any other nominated parties). This is the most accommodating of the licences in terms of
what others can do with the work.

View Australian Licence Deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au) | View Australian Legal Code

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/legalcode)

View Unported License Deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) | View Unported Legal Code

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Attribution-Share Alike
CC BY-SA

This licence lets others distribute, remix and build upon the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as
they credit the original creator/s (and any other nominated parties) and license any new creations based on the
work under the same terms. All new derivative works will carry the same licence, so will also allow commercial
use.

In other words, you agree to share your materials with others, if they will share their new works in return. This
licence is often compared to the free software licences, known as ‘copyleft.’
View Australian Licence Deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au) | View Australian Legal Code
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/legalcode)

Attribution-No Derivative Works

CC BY-ND

This licence allows others to distribute the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as the work is
unchanged, and the original creator/s (and any other nominated parties) are credited.

View Australian Licence Deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/au) | View Australian Legal Code

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/au/legalcode)

Attribution-Noncommercial
CC BY-NC

This licence lets others distribute, remix and build upon the work, but only if it is for non-commercial purposes
and they credit the original creator/s (and any other nominated parties). They don’t have to license their
derivative works on the same terms.

View Australian Licence Deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au) | View Australian Legal Code

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/legalcode)

Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
CC BY-NC-SA

This licence lets others distribute, remix and build upon the work, but only if it is for non-commercial purposes,
they credit the original creator/s (and any other nominated parties) and they license their derivative works under
the same terms.

View Australian Licence Deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au) | View Australian Legal

Code (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/legalcode)

Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives
CC BY-NC-ND

This licence is the most restrictive of the six main licences, allowing redistribution of the work in its current form
only. This licence is often called the ‘free advertising’ licence because it allows others to download and share
the work as long as they credit the original creator/s (and any other nominated parties), they don’t change the
material in any way and they don’t use it commercially.
View Australian Licence Deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au) | View Australian Legal
Code (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/legalcode)

More Info
Still going over your head? You can find fact sheets, videos and other information tools about Creative
Commons, its licences and using licensed material on our Learn More (/learn-more) page.

The Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org) international site also has a whole range of information,
including:

an explanation of the rights covered by Creative Commons licences in the baseline rights and
restrictions (http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/fullrights) section
examples in their about (http://creativecommons.org/about) section
the think (http://creativecommons.org/about/think) page discusses some things you may want to consider
before using the Creative Commons licences.

If you want to apply a CC licence to your work, the Licence Chooser (http://creativecommons.org/chooser) will
help you find the licence that is right for you.

Version 2.5 Australia Licences

In June 2010 Creative Commons Australia upgraded (/version3) the local licences to the most current version
being used internationally, version 3.0. The above links are to these licences.

Below are links to the previous versions of the Australia licences (Version 2.5):

Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/) ;
Attribution-Share Alike (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/au/) ;
Attribution-Noncommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au/) ;
Attribution-No Derivative Works (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/au/) ;
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-
nd/2.5/au/) ; and
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/) .

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