The Creative Commons Licenses (CC) are several public copyright licenses that allow users free distribution rights of an otherwise copyrighted work. The author of a Creative Commons Licensed file gives anyone the right to use, share, and edit the work they have created with the file. The author has the ability to choose a CC license that allows users specific rights. These specific rights make up the different Creative Commons License types. They are listed below:

• Public Domain (CC0)
• Attribution (BY)
• Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA)
• Attribution-NonCommercial (BY-NC)
• Attribution-NoDerivs (BY-ND)
• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA)
• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (BY-NC-ND)