Creative Commons licenses are built on existing copyright law - they work with copyright, not against it. Creative Commons allows creators more flexibility when it comes to sharing the work they have created with others. Copyright can be restrictive, especially since the advent of digital sharing via the internet. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that published its first licenses in 2002 and has helped creators share their works in Open Education, Open Access publishing, Open Source Software, Open Data, Open Science, & Open Innovation. To date, there are over 1 BILLION CC-Licensed works.
