Editing Creative Commons license (section)

== History ==
[[File:Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig.jpg|thumb|[[Aaron Swartz]] and Lawrence Lessig at the 2002 event for the first release of the licenses]]
[[Lawrence Lessig]] and [[Eric Eldred]] designed the Creative Commons License (CCL) in 2001 because they saw a need for a license between the existing modes of copyright and [[public domain]] status. Version 1.0 of the licenses was officially released on 16 December 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-12-16 |title=Creative Commons Unveils Machine-Readable Copyright Licenses |url=http://www.creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/3476 |website=Creative Commons |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021222175127/http://www.creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/3476 |archive-date=December 22, 2002}}</ref>

=== Origins ===
The CCL allows inventors to keep the rights to their innovations while also allowing for some external use of the invention.<ref name="Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians and GLAM">{{Cite web |title=1.1 The Story of Creative Commons |url=https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/1-1-the-story-of-creative-commons/ |access-date=2021-04-28 |website=Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians and GLAM |archive-date=April 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408214258/https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/1-1-the-story-of-creative-commons/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The CCL emerged as a reaction to the decision in ''[[Eldred v. Ashcroft]]'', in which the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruled constitutional provisions of the [[Copyright Term Extension Act]] that extended the copyright term of works to be the last living author's lifespan plus an additional 70 years.<ref name="Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians and GLAM" />

=== License porting ===
The original non-localized Creative Commons licenses were written with the U.S. legal system in mind; therefore, the wording may be incompatible with local legislation in other [[jurisdictions]], rendering the licenses unenforceable there. To address this issue, Creative Commons asked its affiliates to translate the various licenses to reflect local laws in a process called "[[Creative Commons jurisdiction ports|porting]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Murray |first=Laura J. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/844373100 |publisher=Oxford University Press |title=Putting intellectual property in its place : rights discourses, creative labor, and the everyday |date=2014 |others=S. Tina Piper, Kirsty Robertson |isbn=978-0-19-933626-5 |location=Oxford |oclc=844373100 |access-date=April 29, 2021 |archive-date=October 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241005164356/https://search.worldcat.org/title/844373100 |url-status=live }}</ref> As of July 2011, Creative Commons licenses have been ported to over 50 jurisdictions worldwide.<ref>"Worldwide". Creative Commons. Archived from the original on October 15, 2008.</ref>