{"id":4036,"date":"2022-12-09T12:38:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.centre-mersenne.org\/creative-commons-licences\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T11:31:21","slug":"creative-commons-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centre-mersenne.org\/en\/creative-commons-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Commons licences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is a Creative Commons licence?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

Under French law<\/a>, “l\u2019auteur d’une \u0153uvre de l’esprit jouit sur cette \u0153uvre, du seul fait de sa cr\u00e9ation, d’un droit de propri\u00e9t\u00e9 incorporelle exclusif et opposable \u00e0 tous”, that’s to say : the author of a work of the mind enjoys, by the sole fact of its creation, an exclusive intangible property right enforceable against all. The creator of a work of the mind enjoys moral rights: respect for the author’s name, his work, disclosure of the work, withdrawal of the work, etc. The right of authorship, i.e. respect for the author’s name, is a “perpetual, inalienable and imprescriptible” right. The author also benefits from economic rights: exploitation rights, representation rights, reproduction rights, etc. The economic rights can be transferred to third parties.<\/p>\n\n

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Creative Commons licences, or CC licences, do not replace copyright law. They specify, in a simple manner, the permissions granted by the author. They set the conditions and limits for the use of the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, an author uploads an image under the CC-BY-NC (Attribution, for non-commercial use) licence. Anyone wishing to reuse this image knows that they can modify it, that commercial use is forbidden and that the creator must be cited, without having to contact the creator to ask permission to use the image. By imposing the citation of the author’s name, the licence preserves the author’s moral rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The choice of a Creative Commons license is final. Thus, as the CoopIST website<\/a> explains : \u00ab Une fois que vous avez attribu\u00e9 une licence Creative Commons \u00e0 une \u0153uvre, quiconque en prend connaissance peut s\u2019en pr\u00e9valoir pour r\u00e9utiliser votre \u0153uvre. Si vous d\u00e9cidez de changer de licence Creative Commons ou de cesser la diffusion de votre \u0153uvre sous licence Creative Commons, cela ne s\u2019appliquera pas aux exemplaires d\u00e9j\u00e0 en circulation, ni aux adaptations de votre \u0153uvre d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9alis\u00e9es, qui pourront continuer \u00e0 \u00eatre diffus\u00e9s et r\u00e9utilis\u00e9s aux conditions de la licence que vous aviez choisie \u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

How to assign a Creative Commons license?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

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The easiest way to create the appropriate licence for your work is to use the licence selector<\/u><\/a>. Simply enter the desired characteristics and the selector automatically creates the license. It is advisable to fill in the “Help others attribute you!” form, which allows you to add a name, a title of the work, links, etc. This allows the person who will be re-using the work to cite his or her sources correctly, without any attribution errors.<\/p>\n\n

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To properly cite a Creative Commons license, you must indicate :<\/p>\n\n