Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported
Also known as Attribution NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported, Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0, Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported, Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0, CC BY ND 3.0, CC BY ND 3.0 Unported, CC BY-ND 3.0, CC BY-ND 3.0 Unported, CC-BY-ND 3.0, CC-BY-ND 3.0 Unported, CC-BY-ND-3.0, Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 3.0 Unported, Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0, Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0 Unported.
- Commercial use
- allowed
- Share alike
- not required
- Attribution
- required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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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Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
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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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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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Derive from the text Not permitted: Derive. Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
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Moral rights restriction from the text Not permitted: Moral rights restriction. 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. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.
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Sublicense from the text Not permitted: Sublicense. 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.
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
For the avoidance of doubt: i. Non-waivable Compulsory License Schemes. In those jurisdictions in which the right to collect royalties through any statutory or compulsory licensing scheme cannot be waived, the Licensor reserves the exclusive right to collect such royalties for any exercise by You of the rights granted under this License; ii. Waivable Compulsory License Schemes. In those jurisdictions in which the right to collect royalties through any statutory or compulsory licensing scheme can be waived, the Licensor waives the exclusive right to collect such royalties for any exercise by You of the rights granted under this License; and, iii. Voluntary License Schemes. The Licensor waives the right to collect royalties, whether individually or, in the event that the Licensor is a member of a collecting society that administers voluntary licensing schemes, via that society, from any exercise by You of the rights granted under this 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-nd/3.0/
- Legal code
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode
- This description is published under
- https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
- Publisher
- Creative Commons
- SPDX identifier
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CC-BY-ND-3.0on the SPDX license list - Version
- 3.0
- DALICC identifier
CC-BY-ND-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.
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 and named the license the record itself is published under.
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prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicensewas
prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicenseManual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may Distribute or Publicly Perform the Work only under the terms of this License."
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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 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."
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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 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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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.