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About Creative Commons
Creative Commons was founded in 2001. It is a nonprofit organisation that offers a flexible range of copyright protections and freedoms for authors and artists. It has built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” system. All Creative Commons tools are free.
Digital technologies are connecting people in ways that were never before possible. Creative Commons aims to help enable a participatory culture – a culture in which everyone can actively engage in the creativity that surrounds us, and in which access is granted to cultural, scientific, and educational content that has been pre-cleared for use by its authors.
Offering your work under a Creative Commons licence does not mean giving up your copyright. It means offering some of your rights to any member of the public but only on certain conditions. All Creative Commons licences require that use of another person’s work must be attributed to that person in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
About Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand
We are the kaitiaki of the New Zealand CC licences that enable the voluntary sharing of copyright material in Aotearoa. We're a kiwi remix on an international movement toward open access licensing and are here to support Creative Commons in New Zealand.
You can download our brochure or watch a video about Creative Commons for New Zealanders.
Want to learn more about our upcoming work and who's invloved? Visit our jurisdiction wiki page to see our roadmap and meeting documents.
This Website
The visual design of this website has been produced by Sarah Laing and Nicola Nelson. Technical development has been led by CWA Project Manager, Bene Anderson.
