# What is Creative Commons?

When you take a photo, make music or shoot a video it’s yours, you own it. You also own the copyright. Which means you decide how it is used and who can use it and if it can be copied and shared (or remixed). Creative Commons is a set of licenses that enable lawful collaboration to do things like copy, share and remix. Creative Commons is a way to give permission to everyone to freely reuse your creative works. Hundreds of sites use these licenses: Wikipedia, YouTube, Archive.org, Vimeo, Soundcloud, Flickr, Bandcamp, Boundless, Jamendo, TED, Musopen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Free Music Archive, Freesound.

Creative Commons makes us all more free to create.

Copy, share and remix free media on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org

CreativeCommons

Also view on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPZTh2NKTm4

and Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/202862112

The content contained in this video is available under the Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike License v 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) unless otherwise stated. The work is attributable to: Victor Grigas, Wikimedia Foundation.

Video by Victor Grigas Music by Kate Orange

The Wikipedia puzzle globe is by the authors at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_trademarks, CC BY-SA 3.0

The Wikimedia Foundation trademarks are usually registered trademarks or pending registration of the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please see our Trademark Policy at…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: VGrigas (WMF)
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:What_is_Creative_Commons%3F.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: VGrigas (WMF)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/56000666?play=1)