Editing Creative Commons license (section)

== Unicode symbols ==
{{Contains special characters|Uncommon Unicode|section|compact=y}}
After being proposed by Creative Commons in 2017,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-07-24 |title=Proposal to add CC license symbols to UCS |url=http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17242r-creative-commons.pdf |access-date=2020-08-21 |website=Unicode |archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326234933/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17242r-creative-commons.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Creative Commons license symbols were added to [[Unicode]] with version 13.0 in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Steuer |first=Eric |date=2020-03-18 |title=The Unicode Standard Now Includes CC License Symbols |url=https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/18/the-unicode-standard-now-includes-cc-license-symbols/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727183045/https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/18/the-unicode-standard-now-includes-cc-license-symbols/ |archive-date=2020-07-27 |access-date=2020-07-06 |website=Creative Commons |language=en-US}}</ref> The circle with an equal sign (meaning ''no derivatives'') is present in older versions of Unicode, unlike all the other symbols.
{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Unicode
! [[Decimal]]
! [[UTF-8]]
! Image
! Displayed
! [[Unicode block]]
|-
| Circled equals<br />meaning ''[[Derivative work|no derivatives]]''
| U+229C
| &amp;#8860;
| E2 8A 9C
| [[File:Cc-nd.svg|center|26px|class=skin-invert-image]]
| style="font-size:24pt;" |⊜
| [[Mathematical Operators (Unicode block)|Mathematical Operators]]
|-
| Circled zero with slash<br />meaning ''no rights reserved''
| U+1F10D
| &amp;#127245;
| F0 9F 84 8D
| [[File:Cc-zero.svg|center|26px|class=skin-invert-image]]
| style="font-size:24pt;" |🄍
| [[Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement]]
|-
| Circled anticlockwise arrow<br />meaning ''[[share alike]]''
| U+1F10E
| &amp;#127246;
| F0 9F 84 8E
| [[File:Cc-sa.svg|center|26px|class=skin-invert-image]]
| style="font-size:24pt;" |🄎
| Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
|-
| Circled dollar sign with overlaid backslash<br />meaning ''non-commercial''
| U+1F10F
| &amp;#127247;
| F0 9F 84 8F
| [[File:Cc-nc.svg|center|26px|class=skin-invert-image]]
| style="font-size:24pt;" |🄏
| Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
|-
| Circled CC<br />meaning ''Creative Commons license''
| U+1F16D
| &amp;#127341;
| F0 9F 85 AD
| [[File:Cc.logo.circle.svg|center|26px|class=skin-invert-image]]
| style="font-size:24pt;" |🅭
| Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
|-
| Circled C with overlaid backslash<br />meaning ''[[public domain]]''
| U+1F16E
| &amp;#127342;
| F0 9F 85 AE
| [[File:Cc-public domain mark.svg|center|26px|class=skin-invert-image]]
| style="font-size:24pt;" |🅮
| Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
|-
| Circled human figure<br />meaning ''attribution, credit''
| U+1F16F
| &amp;#127343;
| F0 9F 85 AF
| [[File:Cc-by new.svg|center|26px|class=skin-invert-image]]
| style="font-size:24pt;" |🅯
| Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
|}

These symbols can be used in succession to indicate a particular Creative Commons license, for example, ''CC-BY-SA'' (CC-Attribution-ShareAlike) can be expressed with Unicode symbols <code>CIRCLED CC</code>, <code>CIRCLED HUMAN FIGURE</code> and <code>CIRCLED ANTICLOCKWISE ARROW</code> placed next to each other: 🅭🅯🄎