What are Creative Commons Licenses?

Transcript:
This video will introduce you to Creative Commons licenses, which makes copyright easier to understand.
Let's say you create something.
This thing could be creative, like a picture of your cat, or scholarly, like an essay about cats.
Because you are the creator of this picture or this essay, copyright allows you to decide what people can do with your creation.

When you are the copyright holder, people have to ask you for permission before putting your cat picture into a PowerPoint or adapting your cat essay into a movie.

To learn more about Creative Commons licenses, visit the Creative Commons website or check out some of the other videos in our series.