For your Works you can decide to keep all the moral and economic rights reserved for you, guaranteed by the various legislation in force from time to time on copyright, according to the traditional model “all rights reserved”. Or you can decide to give up a part of them by adopting one of the “Creative Commons” license types to allow an extended sharing of your works, according to the “some rights reserved” model. With the Creative Commons approach, you leave the possibility of using your work (a photo, a software, a recipe …) available to everyone, but you can prevent for example someone from appropriating it and exploiting it for commercial purposes. One of the most frequent uses is, in fact, to leave the use of the Work free as long as the author is mentioned (option: BY) or as long as it is not used commercially (option: NC).
Authors can choose their preferred license and, if they want to “show” their choice, they can place the license type icon. Below, we report the most used types and related icons, referring to the official sites of Creative Commons for the complete list: the English site of the foundation that carries out the Creative Commons project is here(the Italian site here)
- Licence “CC” – “BY” (*)
This License requires that those who intend to use, modify or create derivative works of the work, even for commercial purposes, must only recognize the authorship of the work to its author.
- Licence “CC” – “BY” – “NC” (*)
This License requires that those who intend to use the work must recognize the authorship of the work to its author and must not use for commercial purposes.
- Licence “CC” – “BY” – “ND” (*)
This License requires that those who intend to use the work must recognize the authorship of the work to its author and must not modify or create derivative works
- Licence “CC” – “BY” – ND” – “NC” (*)
This License allows the use of the work but prohibits the processing / modification and the use is not allowed of the work for commercial purposes. Furthermore, the authorship of the work must always be acknowledged to its author.
- Licence “CC” – “BY” – “NC” – “SA” (*)
This License allows the use, elaboration / modification of the work, but the use of the work for commercial purposes and the new work must be distributed only through a license identical to that used for the original work. Furthermore, the authorship of the work must always be acknowledged to its author.
(*) the icons (in svg, png and eps format) can be freely downloaded from this site and used for one’s own works
Please note that the choice of Creative Commons License type is exclusively by the Author. The Author must not ask for any permission to either CreativitySafe or Creative Commons. However, the Author must have in mind that, once a certain type of CC License has been chosen, for that specific Opera, the CC License is no longer revocable.