## CC license building blocks

There are several different Creative Commons Licenses. If you want to use a material that has a Creative Commons license it is key to check which license is used. A material’s license indicates what is allowed. When you yourself want to give a work you’ve created a Creative Commons license, what you want to permit determines which of the licenses is suitable to apply.

The building blocks of Creative Commons Licenses
There are 4 building blocks that are used in Creative Commons licenses.
The building blocks stand for 4 different terms of use:

If you know these building blocks, the meaning of a Creative Commons license is easy to figure out.
In the next segment you will learn more about the 6 CC licenses.