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Creative Commons license: History, Works & Companies

A Creative Commons license (CC license) is one of several public copyright licenses produced by Creative Commons (CC), a U.S. non-profit corporation, that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work" for public good. A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that the…

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Creative Commons license topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Works and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Creative Commons license.

Related topics
70
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
78
Extracted relationships
119
Concept neighborhoods
35
Bridge connections
78

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Types of license · 25 topics
Legal aspects · 15 topics
Applicable works · 10 topics
History · 7 topics
Overview · 7 topics
Rights and obligations · 3 topics
Works with a Creative Commons license · 2 topics
Version 4.0 · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Applicable works

Types of license

Version 4.0

Rights and obligations

Legal aspects

Works with a Creative Commons license

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Creative Commons license connects Entity context

The extracted context around Creative Commons license shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Creative Commons license → Adam Curry, Amsterdam, Creative Commons, Creative Commons Non-Commercial, Curry, Curry's, Curry's Flickr, Dutch, Dutch CC, In, Information Law, Institute, Professor Bernt Hugenholtz, The, The Dutch Court's, University, While Another extracted example is Creative Commons license → Any, Assault Cube, CC, CC0, Creative Commons, Despite, FOSS, Free Software Foundation, Freeware, Furthermore, However, Instead, Mari0, Outside, The White Chamber, While. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Creative Commons license

Top relations

related to Dutch tabloid · 17
Creative Commons license → Adam Curry, Amsterdam, Creative Commons, Creative Commons Non-Commercial, Curry, Curry's, Curry's Flickr, Dutch, Dutch CC, In, Information Law, Institute, Professor Bernt Hugenholtz, The, The Dutch Court's, University, While
related to Software · 16
Creative Commons license → Any, Assault Cube, CC, CC0, Creative Commons, Despite, FOSS, Free Software Foundation, Freeware, Furthermore, However, Instead, Mari0, Outside, The White Chamber, While
related to Virgin Mobile · 16
Creative Commons license → Alison Chang, Alison's, Attribution, Creative Commons, Creative Commons-BY, Flickr, However, In, Justin Ho-Wee Wong, Texas, The, URL, Users, Virgin, Virgin Mobile, Virgin Mobile Australia
related to GateHouse Media, Inc. v. That's Great News, LLC · 11
Creative Commons license → August, GateHouse, GateHouse Creative Commons, GateHouse Media, Illinois, LLC, On June, Rockford, Rockford Register Star, That's Great News, The
related to Retired licenses · 11
Creative Commons license → Attribution, CC0, Creative Commons, Developing Nations License, Due, Full, Plus, Sampling, Sampling Plus, The, World Bank
related to Unicode symbols · 10
Creative Commons license → After, ARROWplaced, CC, CC-Attribution-ShareAlike, CC-BY-SA, CIRCLED HUMAN FIGUREandCIRCLED ANTICLOCKWISE, Creative Commons, The, These, Unicode
related to Version 4.0 · 9
Creative Commons license → Additionally, Creative Commons, In, No, November, Prior, The, This, Version
related to Non-commercial licenses · 6
Creative Commons license → Creative Commons, In, PDF, The, The NonCommercial, Wikimedia Deutschland
related to history · 5
Creative Commons license → CCL, December, Eric Eldred, Lawrence Lessig, Version
related to License porting · 5
Creative Commons license → As, Creative Commons, July, The, To

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

license licenses creative commons work copyright cc public cc0 works software rights used using free use author domain legal also

Creative Commons license relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 119 structured relationships around Creative Commons license. Examples in this analysis include DFSG or the Free Software Foundation's standards → instance of → according to definitions and Creative Commons license → related to Applicable works → Work. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
DFSG or the Free Software Foundation's standardsinstance ofaccording to definitions0.80text
and cannot be used in contexts that require these freedomsinstance ofaccording to definitions0.80text
such as Wikipediainstance ofaccording to definitions0.80text
Creative Commons licenserelated to Applicable worksWork0.60section
Creative Commons licenserelated to Applicable worksCreative Commons0.60section
Creative Commons licenserelated to Applicable worksThis0.60section
Creative Commons licenserelated to Dutch tabloidIn0.60section
Creative Commons licenserelated to Dutch tabloidAdam Curry0.60section
Creative Commons licenserelated to Dutch tabloidDutch0.60section
Creative Commons licenserelated to Dutch tabloidCurry's Flickr0.60section
Creative Commons licenserelated to Dutch tabloidCurry's0.60section
Creative Commons licenserelated to Dutch tabloidThe0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Creative Commons license bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Creative, Licenses and License. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Creative Commons license
    • Creative
    • Licenses
    • License
    • Author
    • Software
    • Work
    • Copyright
    • Works
    • Content
    • Licensed
    • Public
    • Legal
  • creative commons license
    • Creative
    • Licenses
    • Work
    • License
    • Author
    • Works
    • Copyright
    • Software
    • Content
    • Free
    • Licensed
    • Public
  • public copyright licenses
    • Domain
    • Cc0
    • Software
    • Public
    • Work
    • License
    • Creative
    • Non-commercial
    • Free
    • Used
    • Attribution
    • Applicable
  • creative commons
    • Creative
    • Licenses
    • License
    • Work
    • Works
    • Copyright
    • Content
    • Licensed
    • Public
    • Legal
    • Cc
    • Law
  • public domain
    • Domain
    • Public
    • Cc0
    • Software
    • Used
    • Work
    • Works
    • Attribution
    • Use
    • Using
    • Licenses
    • Free
  • copyright term extension act
    • Public
    • Work
    • Domain
    • License
    • Creative
    • Free
    • Used
    • Applicable
    • Law
    • Also
    • Use
    • Rights
  • free and open-source software
    • Software
    • Used
    • Rights
    • Licenses
    • Using
    • Law
    • License
    • One
    • Several
    • Website
    • Cc0
    • Public
  • software licenses
    • Software
    • Rights
    • Used
    • Using
    • Law
    • Non-commercial
    • Cc0
    • Public
    • Content
    • Several
    • Also
    • Attribution

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Creative Commons license, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Creative Commons license with Types of license. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Creative Commons license — Types of license · splits 53 ⟂ 26
Creative Commons license — Legal aspects · splits 63 ⟂ 16
Creative Commons license — Applicable works · splits 68 ⟂ 11
Creative Commons license — Overview · splits 71 ⟂ 8
Creative Commons license — History · splits 71 ⟂ 8
Creative Commons license — Rights and obligations · splits 75 ⟂ 4
Creative Commons license — Works with a Creative Commons license · splits 76 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Creative Commons license

Nodes79
Edges78
Triples119
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025316
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Creative Commons license to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Works & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Creative Commons license · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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