Editing Creative Commons license (section)

=== 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" />