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cc by nd yes no yes no no attribution noncommercial noderivatives cc by nc nd yes no no no no zero public domain edit see also list of public domain projects cc0 redirects here not to be confused with cco disambiguation tool name abbreviation icon attribution required allows remix culture allows commercial use allows free cultural works meets the okf open definition no rights reserved cc0 no yes yes yes yes cc zero public domain dedication tool logo 35 creative commons public domain mark indicates works which have already fallen into or were given to the public domain creative commons public domain mark button besides copyright licenses creative commons also offers cc0 a tool for relinquishing copyright and releasing material into the public domain 34 cc0 is a legal tool for waiving as many rights as legally possible 36 when that is not legally possible cc0 falls back to a public domain equivalent license 36 cc0 began development in 2007 37 and was released in 2009 38 39 a major target of the license was the scientific data community 40 in 2010 creative commons announced its public domain mark pdm 41 42 43 a symbol used to indicate that a work is free of known copyright restrictions and therefore in the public domain it is analogous to the copyright symbol which is commonly used to indicate that a work is copyrighted often as part of a copyright notice the public domain mark itself does not release a copyrighted work into the public domain like cc0 the symbol is encoded in unicode as u 1f16e circled c with overlaid backslash 44 which was added in unicode 13 0 in march 2020 45 as there is no single definition of public domain and copyright laws differ by jurisdiction a work can be in the public domain in some countries while still being under copyright in others so called hybrid status it is also difficult to assess the legal status of many works the pdm is recommended to be used only for works that are likely free from any copyright restrictions worldwide 46 together cc0 and the public domain mark replace the public domain dedication and certification 47 which took a u s centric approach and co mingled distinct operations in 2011 the free software foundation added cc0 to its free software licenses however they recommend against using cc0 to release software into the public domain as it explicitly withholds patent rights 21 in february 2012 cc0 was submitted to open source initiative osi for their approval 48 however controversy arose over its clause which excluded from the scope of the license any relevant patents held by the copyright holder this clause was added for scientific data rather than software but some members of the osi believed it could weaken users defenses against software patents as a result creative commons withdrew their submission and the license is not currently approved by the osi 40 49 from 2013 to 2017 the stock photography website unsplash used the cc0 license 50 51 distributing several million free photos a month 52 lawrence lessig the founder of creative commons has contributed to the site 53 unsplash moved from using the cc0 license to a custom license in june 2017 54 and to an explicitly nonfree license in february 2018 in october 2014 the open knowledge foundation approved the creative commons cc0 as conformant with the open definition and recommended the license to dedicate content to the public domain 11 12 in july 2022 fedora linux disallowed software licensed under cc0 due to patent rights explicitly not being waived under the license 55 retired licenses edit due to either disuse or criticism a number of previously offered creative commons licenses have since been retired 30 56 and are no longer recommended for new works the retired licenses include all licenses lacking the attribution element other than cc0 as well as the following four licenses developing nations license a license which only applies to developing countries deemed to be non high income economies by the world bank full 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