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Creative Commons NonCommercial license
Set of licenses allowing free noncommercial use / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Creative Commons NonCommercial license (CC NC, CC BY-NC or NC license) is a Creative Commons license which a copyright holder can apply to their media to give public permission for anyone to reuse that media only for noncommercial activities. Creative Commons is an organization which develops a variety of public copyright licenses, and the "noncommercial" licenses are a subset of these. Unlike the CC0, CC BY, and CC BY-SA licenses, the CC BY-NC license is considered non-free.[1]
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A challenge with using these licenses is determining what noncommercial use is.