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Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers free licenses and legal tools for artists, webpage creators, and bloggers to protect their work. The site offers opportunities to license one's work such that others can adopt and adapt the work, and it can also require that remixers provide attribution for the original author. Creative Commons is a method for authors to tailor their copyright to their liking while still allowing public viewing of the works.

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See also: Copyright, Intellectual Property, Web 2.0