The Creative Commons is a non-profit organization based in Mountain View, California, United States, dedicated to expanding the range of creative works available for others to legally build, and gives a given author the power to decide the limits of use and exploitation of their work or creations on the Internet. This organization has published various copyright licenses which is known as Creative Commons licenses in a free way to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate the rights they reserve and the rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators withassociated visual symbols, which explains the specific details of each Creative Commons license.
The Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright, but rely on it. They supersede individual negotiations for specific rights between the licensor, which means that it is licensed, when authorized. These licenses are required under all rights reserved employing standardized licenses for reuse cases where no commercial compensation is requested by the copyright owner.
Creative Commons is governed by a board of directors and a technical advisory board. Its licenses have been adopted by many as a way for creators to take control of how they choose to share their copyrighted works.
The result is an agile low overhead and inexpensive copyright management regime, benefiting both copyright owners and licensees.