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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) is a public license published by Creative Commons for material covered by copyright and certain similar rights, including database rights. It lets anyone reproduce and share the material and adapted versions of it, with attribution as the main condition. Creative Commons states on the license page that it "is not a law firm and does not provide legal services or legal advice."1
These notes restate parts of the license text so you know what to look for. They are not complete, are not legal advice, and do not tell you whether a particular use is allowed. The license text governs.
What the license text says
- License grant
- The licensor grants a "worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license" to reproduce and Share the licensed material, in whole or in part, and to produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material (Section 2).1
- Attribution
- When sharing, you must keep any creator identification, copyright notice, license and disclaimer notices, and a link to the material that the licensor supplies; indicate whether you modified it; and indicate that it is under this license, with the license text or a link to it (Section 3).1
- No added restrictions
- You may not offer or impose additional or different terms, or apply Effective Technological Measures, to the licensed material if doing so restricts any recipient's exercise of the licensed rights (Section 2).1
- Patents and trademarks
- "Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License." Moral rights and publicity, privacy, and similar personality rights are also not licensed (Section 2).1
- Termination
- If you fail to comply, your rights terminate automatically. They are reinstated automatically if the violation is cured within 30 days of your discovering it, or if the licensor expressly reinstates them (Section 6).1
Records in the catalog that use it (9)
| Record | Covers | License as recorded |
|---|---|---|
| AILuminate | Data | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (demo prompt sets) |
| AutoGen | Documentation | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| DeepSpeed | Documentation | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Dioptra | Code | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (to the extent NIST holds copyright) |
| Epoch AI Data on AI Models | Data | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Model Context Protocol (MCP) | Documentation | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| NVIDIA parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | Weights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| SynthID Bio | Data | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| SynthID Text | Data | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (materials other than software) |
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