The culture of Remix in publications and republishings in CC BY, CC BY-SA and CC BY-NC.

Abstract

Creative Commons licenses were designed to allow the standardization of declarations of will regarding the licensing and distribution of cultural content in general (texts, music, images, films and others), in order to facilitate their sharing and recombination, under the aegis of a copyleft philosophy. The licenses created by the organization allow copyright holders (that is, content authors or rights holders over them) to abdicate to the public some of their rights inherent in their creations, even if they retain others of those rights. This can be made operational through an assortment of standard license modules, which result in licenses ready to be added to the content you want to license. The modules offered may result in licenses ranging from an almost total abdication by the licensor of his property rights, to more restrictive options, which prohibit the possibility of creating derivative works or the commercial use of the licensed materials.