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Contributors select a public domain mark or a Creative Commons attribution license, which enables others to use the symbol with attribution, free of charge. The attribution requirement can be waived upon payment of a nominal fee, which is split between the artist and The Noun Project. [ 2 ]
The Public Domain Mark was developed by Creative Commons [1] [2] and is only an indicator of the public domain status of a work – it 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, [3] which was added in Unicode 13.0 in March 2020. [4]
There are multiple licenses which aim to release works into the public domain. In 2000 the WTFPL was released as a public domain like software license. [59] Creative Commons (created in 2002 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred) has introduced several public-domain-like licenses, called Creative Commons licenses. These give authors ...
English: The «Public Domain Mark» icon from Creative Commons with white background. Español : El ícono «Etiqueta de Dominio Público» de Creative Commons con fondo blanco. Esperanto : «Publikaĵa Marko» ikono de Krea Komunaĵo , blanka fono.
The organization was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred [5] with the support of Center for the Public Domain. The first article in a general interest publication about Creative Commons, written by Hal Plotkin, was published in February 2002. [6] The first set of copyright licenses was released in December 2002. [7]
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This logo image consists only of simple geometric shapes or text. It does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection, and is therefore in the public domain. Although it is free of copyright restrictions, this image may still be subject to other restrictions.
Also, under normal circumstances, a {{PD-textlogo}} image would not contain any "non-free media use rationale," because as a public-domain image, this explanation is unnecessary for use on Wikipedia. However, just because an image page is tagged as {{ Non-free logo }} , {{ PD-textlogo }} , or anything else, does not mean that this is determinative.