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Creative Commons provides a set of free tools to help you legally share your knowledge and creativity.\n<\/p>\n

Basics of copyright<\/span><\/h2>\n

When anyone creates content (as an ‘author’), it is automatically copyrighted as ‘all rights reserved’, even if there is no copyright symbol (\u00a9) displayed. This means you must not copy the materials without prior permission from the copyright holder.\n<\/p>\n

In order to provide permissions for others to re-use, re-mix, revise, and re-distribute the materials, the copyright holder must apply an open licence.\n<\/p>\n

Note that there are two exceptions:\n<\/p>\n