A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, they might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of his/her own work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author's work from concerns of copyright infringement as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license by which the author distributes the work. 

There are several types of CC licenses. The licenses differ by several combinations that condition the terms of distribution. They were initially released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a U.S. non-profit corporation founded in 2001. There have also been five versions of the suite of licenses, numbered 1.0 through 4.0. , the 4.0 license suite is the most current. 

In October 2014 the Open Knowledge Foundation approved the Creative Commons CC BY, CC BY-SA and CC0 licenses as conformant with the "Open Definition" for content and data. 

Work licensed under a Creative Commons license is governed by applicable copyright law. This allows Creative Commons licenses to be applied to all work falling under copyright, including: books, plays, movies, music, articles, photographs, blogs, and websites. Creative Commons does not recommend the use of Creative Commons licenses for software. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What was the release date of the first Creative Commons licenses?
2. What was the date when the first Creative Commons licenses were made available?
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Q2:
1. Who released the first Creative Commons licenses?
2. Who were the first to issue creative commons licenses?
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Q3:
1. Is Creative Commons a for profit foundation?
2. Is Creative Commons an organization designed to generate a profit?
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Q4:
1. When was Creative Commons founded?
2. What was the year of Creative Commons' establishment?
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Q5:
1. What does a Creative Commons license allow one to do?
2. What does it mean to have a Creative Commons license?
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Q6:
1. Is a Creative Commons license recommended for software?
2. Is it advisable to use a Creative Commons license for software?
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Q7:
1. What types of work can a Creative Commons license be applied to?
2. What sorts of projects can use a Creative Commons license?
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Q8:
1. What is the current version of the Creative Commons license?
2. What version is the most up to date suite of the Creative Commons license?
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Q9:
1. How many versions have there been of the Creative Commons license?
2. What is the number of total versions of the Creative Commons license that have existed?
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Q10:
1. What licenses conformed to the Open Definition for content and data?
2. Name the licenses that were decided to be in accordance with the Open Definition for content and Data?
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Q11:
1. Who approved the CC BY, CC BY-SA and CC0 licenses?
2. Who gave the go ahead for the CC BY, CC BY-SA and CC0 licenses?
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Q12:
1. When did the Open Knowledge Foundation approve the CC BY, CC BY-SA and CC0 licenses?
2. At what point did the Open Knowledge Foundation give the go ahead for CC BY, CC BY-SA and CC0 licenses?
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Q13:
1. At what point should an author use a Creative Commons license?
2. When is it good for content creators to deploy Creative Commons licenses?
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Q14:
1. What is kept safe by a Creative Commons license?
2. What does a Creative Commons license protect?
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Q15:
1. What does a Creative Commons license protect one's work from?
2. What is a Creative Commons license keeping a creator's content safe from?
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