Original Licenses
As of July 2011, Creative Commons licenses have been "ported" to over 50 different jurisdictions worldwide. No new ports are being started as preparations for version 4.0 of the license suite begin.
The original set of licenses all grant the "baseline rights", such as the right to distribute the copyrighted work worldwide, without changes, at no charge. The details of each of these licenses depends on the version, and comprises a selection of four conditions:
| Attribution (by) | Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these. | |
| Noncommercial (nc) | Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for noncommercial purposes. | |
| No Derivative Works (nd) | Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based on it. | |
| Share-alike (sa) | Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work. (See also copyleft.) |
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