What is Creative Commons Attribution License?

What is Creative Commons Attribution License?

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they (the author) have created.

Can you use content that is licensed as Creative Commons?

Yes, anyone may use CC licenses for material they own, including governments and IGOs, and these institutions frequently use CC licenses on their copyrightable material. … Creative Commons licenses are also machine-readable, allowing CC-licensed works to be easily discovered via search engines such as Google.