The Creative Commons licenses relates to the name of several copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002. The licenses were released by Creative Commons, a United States nonprofit corporation. Everybody can put their own creations under these licenses.

There are four basic license conditions. A simple overview of these four:

• Attribution (BY): Allow others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and evolved versions of it. They must give the original creator credit for the work.
• Noncommercial (NC): Allow others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and evolved version of it. They are not allowed to make money with it.
• No Derivative Works (ND): Allow others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work. They are not allowed to change the work into something else.
• Share Alike (SA): Allow others to distribute evolved works only when they use the same license. See also copyleft.