Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
Also known as Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 Unported, Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0, Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported, CC BY NC 3.0, CC BY-NC 3.0, CC-BY-NC 3.0, CC-BY-NC-3.0, Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported, Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0.
- Commercial use
- not allowed
- Share alike
- not required
- Attribution
- required (keep the copyright and license notices)
Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.
Permissions
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Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
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Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
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Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
Duties
- Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
- Modification notice from the text The text says: "to Reproduce the Work, to incorporate the Work into one or more Collections, and to Reproduce the Work as incorporated in the Collections; b. to create and Reproduce Adaptations provided that any such Adaptation, including any translation in any medium, takes reasonable steps to clearly label, demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work." Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
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Duties
- Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
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Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
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Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.
Duties
- Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
- Modification notice from the text The text says: "to Reproduce the Work, to incorporate the Work into one or more Collections, and to Reproduce the Work as incorporated in the Collections; b. to create and Reproduce Adaptations provided that any such Adaptation, including any translation in any medium, takes reasonable steps to clearly label, demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work." Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
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Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
Prohibitions
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Change license from the text Not permitted: Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
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Commercial use from the text Not permitted: Commercial use. The text says: "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation." Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
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Moral rights restriction from the text Not permitted: Moral rights restriction. The text says: "Except as otherwise agreed in writing by the Licensor or as may be otherwise permitted by applicable law, if You Reproduce, Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work either by itself or as part of any Adaptations or Collections, You must not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in relation to the Work which would be prejudicial to the Original Author's honor or reputation." Treating the work in a way that touches the moral rights of the author, such as false attribution or a derogatory treatment.
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Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. The text says: "For the avoidance of doubt, You may only use the credit required by this Section for the purpose of attribution in the manner set out above and, by exercising Your rights under this License, You may not implicitly or explicitly assert or imply any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by the Original Author, Licensor and/or Attribution Parties, as appropriate, of You or Your use of the Work, without the separate, express prior written permission of the Original Author, Licensor and/or Attribution Parties. d." Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.
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Royalty collection reserved from the text Not permitted: Royalty collection reserved. Collecting royalties for uses of the work, individually or through a collecting society, under a right the licensor keeps.
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Sublicense from the text Not permitted: Sublicense. The text says: "You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that restrict the terms of this License or the ability of the recipient of the Work to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License. You may not sublicense the Work." Granting a third party rights in the work under a license of the licensee's own, rather than passing on the original license.
License-wide duties
This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.
What applies by default
The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.
No default rule of that graph reaches this license: it speaks about every act the rules are about.
Further terms
These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.
Clauses
Warranty disclaimer
UNLESS OTHERWISE MUTUALLY AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN WRITING, LICENSOR OFFERS THE WORK AS-IS AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE WORK, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR THE ABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, ACCURACY, OR THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF ERRORS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SUCH EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Limitation of liability
EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ANY LEGAL THEORY FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OF THE WORK, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Additional clauses
You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that restrict the terms of this License or the ability of the recipient of the Work to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License. You may not sublicense the Work. You must keep intact all notices that refer to this License and to the disclaimer of warranties with every copy of the Work You Distribute or Publicly Perform. When You Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work, You may not impose any effective technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License.
Info
- Target asset types
- Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset
- Region / jurisdiction
- Worldwide
- Validity
- Perpetual
- Source
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
- Legal code
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
- This description is published under
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Publisher
- Creative Commons
- SPDX identifier
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CC-BY-NC-3.0on the SPDX license list - Version
- 3.0
- DALICC identifier
CC-BY-NC-3.0
This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.
Use this license
Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.
JSON sidecar
{
"license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-NC-3.0",
"license-title": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported",
"spdx-id": "CC-BY-NC-3.0",
"attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
"asset": null,
"generated-by": "DALICC"
}
RDF, Turtle
@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .
<https://example.org/my-work>
cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-NC-3.0> .
RDF, JSON-LD
{
"@context": {
"cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
},
"@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
"cc:license": {
"@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-NC-3.0"
}
}
HTML attribution
<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-NC-3.0" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported</a>.</p>
This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.
Badge
Markdown
[](https://dalicc.net/license-library/CC-BY-NC-3.0)
HTML
<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/CC-BY-NC-3.0"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/CC-BY-NC-3.0/badge.svg" alt="License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported"></a>
Review
- Written from the license text by
- Giray Havur
- Written on
- 2026-09-22
- Second review
- not yet done
- Record changed since this review
- yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
- Findings
- 15 recorded, 12 applied to the record, 0 proposed
The record models the unported text of Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0, the original that the Creative Commons jurisdiction ports of this version were adapted from. It copies the model of CC-BY-NC-4.0, the 4.0 record of the same element set, and departs from it only where the 3.0 text departs from the 4.0 text. Version 3.0 added the moral-rights clause and the collecting-society clause, and replaced Derivative Work and Collective Work with Adaptation and Collection.
15 findings
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info Rubric 1
spdx:licenseIdappliedFile name, identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI agree. The record models the unported original of version 3.0, which the library did not hold: it held the 4.0 International record of this element set and the jurisdiction ports adapted from version 3.0. The record is not a port, so it carries no dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf and no country; cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:variantKind is "version", the kind docs/DATA.md gives a record that is an earlier version of a text the library holds.
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minor Rubric 2
odrl:targetappliedodrl:target carries dalicc:CreativeWork and dcmitype:Dataset. The 3.0 text is the first of the unported line to name data in the definition of the Work: Section 1 includes "a compilation of data to the extent it is protected as a copyrightable work". There is no sui generis database right clause in this text, so the dataset type rests on that sentence alone and not on a database right the licence licenses or waives. The 3.0 jurisdiction ports in the library carry the same pair, and so does every other 3.0 record of this addition.
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major Rubric 3
odrl:permissionappliedSection 3 grants a license to Reproduce the Work, "to create and Reproduce Adaptations provided that any such Adaptation, including any translation in any medium, takes reasonable steps to clearly label, demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work", to Distribute and Publicly Perform the Work, and to Distribute and Publicly Perform Adaptations. That is odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:display, odrl:present, odrl:modify, dalicc:ModifiedWorks, odrl:derive and cc:DerivativeWorks.
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major Rubric 4
odrl:prohibitionappliedThe NonCommercial element reads: "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation." cc:CommercialUse is therefore a prohibition and not a permission. The licence adds: "The exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of copyrighted works." dalicc:chargeDistributionFee stays a permission, which is the reading CC-BY-NC-4.0 and the ports of this element set already carry: a fee for the act of transferring a copy is not the commercial advantage the clause bars. dalicc:chargeLicenseFee is not written, because the licence bars charging for the grant itself.
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major Rubric 4
odrl:prohibitionappliedSection 4(a) reads: "You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that restrict the terms of this License or the ability of the recipient of the Work to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License. You may not sublicense the Work." That is dalicc:sublicense prohibited, which review decision 1 of 2026-09-15 requires of every Creative Commons record except the CC0 dedication, and dalicc:ChangeLicense prohibited, which library convention 15 expressly keeps for this family because the no-downstream-restrictions clause is the bar the rule otherwise denies.
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major Rubric 4
odrl:prohibitionapplieddalicc:promote is prohibited on the strength of Section 4(c): "You may not implicitly or explicitly assert or imply any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by the Original Author, Licensor and/or Attribution Parties". The Creative Commons trademark paragraph at the foot of the 3.0 text is not the basis, because that text says of itself "For the avoidance of doubt, this trademark restriction does not form part of the License."
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major Rubric 4
odrl:prohibitionappliedThe licence reserves the royalty collection against the licensee: "Licensor reserves the exclusive right to collect, whether individually or via a performance rights society (e.g. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC), royalties for the public performance or public digital performance (e.g. webcast) of the Work if that performance is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation." dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved says exactly that and is written as a prohibition, because it is the licensee who may not exercise the reserved right. The term was defined by the review of 2026-09-15 and applied to no record until now; the whole clause is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses.
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major Rubric 4
odrl:prohibitionappliedThe 3.0 text binds the licensee to the moral rights of the author: "You must not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in relation to the Work which would be prejudicial to the Original Author's honor or reputation". dalicc:moralRightsRestriction is defined for exactly that ("Where the license binds the licensee to respect those rights, this is the action it restricts") and is written as a prohibition. It had been applied to no record. The 1.0, 2.0 and 2.5 texts have no such clause and their records carry no such prohibition.
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major Rubric 5
odrl:dutyappliedSection 4(a) reads: "You must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for, this License with every copy of the Work You Distribute or Publicly Perform." and the attribution clause asks You to "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work" and to name the Original Author and the title. cc:Attribution and cc:Notice therefore hang on odrl:distribute, on odrl:modify and on odrl:derive, where dalicc:modificationNotice joins them because Section 3(b) asks an Adaptation to "clearly label, demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work" . The duties hang on the acts that trigger them, not on the odrl:Set.
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gap Rubric 8
dalicc:additionalClausesnoneTwo clauses the record quotes rather than models, because CC-BY-NC-4.0 and the 287 ports do not model them either and a single set of records should not change the family on its own. The first is the technological measures sentence: "When You Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work, You may not impose any effective technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License." dalicc:applyTechnicalProtectionMeasures exists and would carry it as a prohibition. The second is Section 8: "the Licensor offers to the recipient a license to the Work on the same terms and conditions as the license granted to You under this License", which dalicc:downstreamOffer describes exactly; odrl:grantUse cannot carry it, because the dependency graph makes odrl:grantUse the same action as dalicc:sublicense and this licence prohibits sublicensing. Both are proposals for the whole Creative Commons family rather than for this record.
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major Rubric 7
dalicc:terminatesOnBreachappliedSection 7(a) reads: "This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically upon any breach by You of the terms of this License." dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is true and no dalicc:curePeriod is written, because this generation of the licence has no reinstatement clause: once the licence ends, it ends. The 4.0 text added the 30-day reinstatement, and CC-BY-NC-4.0 carries neither property today. Section 7(b) says "the license granted here is perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright in the Work)", so dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, and the text names no legal system, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide.
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minor Rubric 6
dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimerappliedThe warranty disclaimer and the limitation of liability are separate sections and are quoted into separate properties, which is family rule 10. Both are quoted verbatim, including the spelling of the source text ("MERCHANTIBILITY", "THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF ERRORS"). The text of CC-BY-NC-3.0 carries no long dash, so no quotation needed a hyphen in place of one. Line breaks inside a quoted clause are collapsed to single spaces, the way CC-BY-NC-4.0 writes its clauses; the ports keep the line breaks of their own source.
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info Rubric 9
recordnoneThe consistency check of app.services.composer against the axioms of licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl returned no conflicts.
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info Rubric 10
recordnoneThe nearest sibling is CC-BY-NC-4.0, and the nearest port is the 3.0 port of this element set. The record carries the same permissions, duties and prohibitions as CC-BY-NC-4.0 and differs from it in five things, all of them differences between the two texts: no dcmitype:Dataset on the target, dalicc:terminatesOnBreach with no cure period, dalicc:licenseVersion "3.0" with dalicc:variantKind "version", the clause quotes of this generation of the text, and the statements this version adds (dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved, dalicc:moralRightsRestriction, dalicc:shareAlikeVersionQualifier and dalicc:reciprocityScope where the text has them).
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minor Rubric 10
dalicc:additionalClausesappliedThe six records of this version quote the same passages of the version's text, each literal a single verbatim run of this record's own legal code, in the order the text states them. A passage the element set does not have is absent, which is a difference between the texts and not between two readings.
Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.
History
This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.
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Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur
The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, named the license the record itself is published under and removed the quotes that do not name the act they support.
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permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]was
permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "to Reproduce the Work, to incorporate the Work into one or more Collections, and to Reproduce the Work as incorporated in the Collections; b. to create and Reproduce Adaptations provided that any such Adaptation, including any translation in any medium, takes reasonable steps to clearly label, demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work."
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permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]was
permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work"
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permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]was
permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work" Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "to Reproduce the Work, to incorporate the Work into one or more Collections, and to Reproduce the Work as incorporated in the Collections; b. to create and Reproduce Adaptations provided that any such Adaptation, including any translation in any medium, takes reasonable steps to clearly label, demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work."
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prohibition cc:CommercialUsewas
prohibition cc:CommercialUseManual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation."
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prohibition dalicc:moralRightsRestrictionwas
prohibition dalicc:moralRightsRestrictionManual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Except as otherwise agreed in writing by the Licensor or as may be otherwise permitted by applicable law, if You Reproduce, Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work either by itself or as part of any Adaptations or Collections, You must not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in relation to the Work which would be prejudicial to the Original Author's honor or reputation."
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prohibition dalicc:promotewas
prohibition dalicc:promoteManual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "For the avoidance of doubt, You may only use the credit required by this Section for the purpose of attribution in the manner set out above and, by exercising Your rights under this License, You may not implicitly or explicitly assert or imply any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by the Original Author, Licensor and/or Attribution Parties, as appropriate, of You or Your use of the Work, without the separate, express prior written permission of the Original Author, Licensor and/or Attribution Parties. d."
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prohibition dalicc:sublicensewas
prohibition dalicc:sublicenseManual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that restrict the terms of this License or the ability of the recipient of the Work to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License. You may not sublicense the Work."
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dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
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permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]was
permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
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permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]was
permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
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permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]was
permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
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Version 1
Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Creative Commons 3.0 Unported).
Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.
Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.