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Creative Comments License Question?

Can Someone explain what the details of this is in a simpler way? Im young and not sure if i fully understand the agreement of it. "Creative Commons is a non-profit organization with a mission to expand private rights to create public goods, creative works set free for certain uses. Offering your work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up your copyright. It means offering some of your rights to any member of the public but only on certain conditions. All of Creative Commons licenses require that you give attribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor."

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1. Creative commons is a thing which doesn't want to make money, it simply wants to give everyone the right to something (Like instead of having a private garden, allowing it to be used as a park by everyone - a park is a public good) and allowing creative works (music, film tv) to be free to be used by everyone for certain things. Allowing your work to be used under Creative Commons doesn't mean you still don't have the right to own it - people can't steal your work and pass it off as your own, you're just allowing people to see it and distribute it, but you can still give conditions under which it's used. All these licenses mean you have to say where you got it from - the person who made the text or source, or the person licensing it." Basically it aims to increase access to things. The point of copyright is to stop people stealing stuff - you have to buy books and songs if you want to read/listen. But allowing your stuff to be free to anyone is better for the community as a whole. Wikipedia works under creative commons (I think). But creative commons does not mean you can take the song/book/play/etc. and use it for your own ends. There will be terms attached, if caught replicating an author's material you may be in breach of copyright.