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==Free licenses==

==Free licenses==
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The person who creates a work is the owner of the work's copyright – which literally means "the right to copy" – unless they produced it on behalf of an organization or legally transferred the right to somebody else.
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The person who creates a work is the owner of the work's copyright – which literally means "the right to copy" – unless they produced it on behalf of an organization or legally transferred the right to somebody else. People use copyright licenses to give others permission to use their works.

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A free license simply means the creator wants to allow others to use their work without asking prior permission. Doing so makes it easier to share work with others.
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A '''free license''' is a kind of copyright license that say the creator will allow anyone to use their work without asking prior permission. Using a free license makes it easier to share your work with others.

The Commons default is the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (CC BY-SA 3.0), which say that for a work released under the license, anyone may:

The Commons default is the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (CC BY-SA 3.0), which say that for a work released under the license, anyone may:

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